David Mackintosh wrote:
So as a consultant who gets to go different places to do different things, I have managed to get exposed to both Veritas NetBackup and Bakbone NetVault. See, in order to change the media in the robot for NetBackup, one must go to the robot, remove the media to be removed, and then add the media to be added. Oh wait no, there's another step: you must MANUALLY TELL THE SOFTWARE THAT THE CONTENTS OF THE ROBOT HAVE CHANGED. Oh wait no, there's another step: you must MANUALLY TELL THE SOFTWARE THAT THE CHANGES ARE TO BE REFLECTED IN THE SOFTWARE'S IDEA OF WHAT IS IN THE ROBOT.
Wow, NetBackup is still that stoopid? I had to use it a few years ago and I was wondering if I was the stupid one to not being able to just change a fscking tape and seeing it in the interface. I was also using Arkeia at the same time, and even if it has its own hates, it was at least able to autodetect the tapes.
Oh, and NetBackup Unix GUI was a total mess, the precise as if the guy who made it had decided to follow the opposite of each rule of GUI design. Oh and the installer, written in shell, was also stupid.
-- Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni Close the world, txEn eht nepO.
