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In a message dated: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:37:18 EDT "Tom Buskey" said: >Legato also has scaling issues. if you're backing up 100 machines, you >probably won't hit it. Also the internal database the use to track >things blows & often gets corrupted. I've heard the same about Legato, but have no direct experience with it. The other thing that I'm not too keen on wrt proprietary backup solutions is the proprietary format the data is sealed in. What happens if your backup server dies and you need to restore something before the rebuild is finished? You have to wait! They tell you that their format is compatible with "standard" tar, but a) what is standard? and b) what they don't tell you, is that to maintain that compatibility you can not enable any of their "performance enhancing" features. Well, if you're going to pay all that money and not get the performance they promised, you may as well stay with tar, and save the expense! >Given the expense and the scaling issues, I'd go with something else. >I've had luck with veritas & amanda in the past on smaller sites. I would take a look at http://www.backupcentral.com/. This site is run by W. Curtis Preston, who is well regarded throughout the industry as the "Backup God". He's consulted for just about everyone who has large scale backup needs and knows his stuff. He also wrote the O'Reilly book on backups. - -- Seeya, Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 (debian 2.2-1) iD8DBQE8wGXbuweSOVPxKO4RAgZpAKCeKNimIjIOTEZrUrzOM1q0sE+uyQCfYp5s wxGXJsGHukc+cDB5LISDZk4= =sHH9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
