[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd have to second the recomendation for Veritas Netbackup. Great product. I've used it in both large, and small networks.On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 00:28, Mark Belanger wrote:Can anyone recommend a backup solution for a fairly large(300 node) heterogeneous network. We currently have Solaris, Windows, Linux, SunOS, and DomainOS machines.
Arkeia (commercial) and Amanda come to mind. For non-Linux backup servers I've used Veritas' NetBackup. It has clients for most OSes.
Another is Tivoli (adsm) from IBM. Also good in mid, to large envirnoments.
Neither is free. You'll have to license whichever one you use, but they'll get the job done for you, and that's what counts. I've had this argument with many a director:
"Yep, we'll have to pay for the software. And before you tell me no, I'll want you to write down just how much the data we're protecting is worth. That's the real cost of your backup solution."
I worked at a large company (whom I'll leave nameless). They wouldn't spring for a decent backup system. They insisted they had no budget.
Then the server crashed, taking it's drives with it. The end result was the loss of about 5Gb of data. All of it vital (proposals for government research contracts, the contracts themselves, research data, etc. All of it LOST. There was just no way to recover it.
Standing and telling an R&D department that they've just lost all their data is the cost of a backup system.
Don't scrimp on this one. I've got the battle scars to back up that statement. Do it right, or stay home.
JMHO-YMMV
Ric
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