I had it installed and running in an afternoon. The only gotcha I found was that DPM wanted disk that had not yet been claimed by Disk Management. It is much nicer than most other BU products simply because you can look at your backed up data via the admin console just as you do when using the Previous Versions tab, so I know exactly what is there and what isn't. The error tracking is very good and actually contains useful information. The user interface is exactly the same as for VSS, they still use the Previous versions tab to restore data if needed. We have been using VSS for over a year so the users are used to it and they have no idea that they are pulling their data from a different source than they used to. It has removed a good piece of overhead from my servers since DPM is doing the snapshots so my file servers don't have to create the snaps or use their disk to save them, and DPM when doing Exchange backups does the integrity check of the backup on the DPM server not on your Exchange server so it reduces the overhead there as well. My setup is from disk to disk, then to another DPM server offsite (DPM is DPM aware also) which writes to disk and then backs that disk to tape. The only thing I didn't like a lot was that I had to push an update to VSS to all of my clients so that it would work with DPM. Also, it is Microsoft centric so if you have other OSes it may not work for you. I am Microsoft-centric here so it works great. TVK MCSA MVP-MOM
-----Original Message----- From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup Software Question How difficult was your deployment? Any easier to manage compared to traditional BU packages? Are you off-loading to tape after disk? How well does the user-managed restore process work? What don't you like about DPM? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 ____ Ambition is a poor excuse for not having the good sense to be lazy. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup Software Question If you are thinking of D2D, running DPM would be less resource intensive than NTBackup. The cost per server is quite low, and it is SQL, Exchange and SharePoint aware. Using VSS you can get 15 minute restore increments instead of hours or days and your users can do their own restores the same way that VSS works. I used it to replace BE and DoubleTake and have been thrilled with it thus far. TVK -----Original Message----- From: Tom Strader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup Software Question How does NTBackup handle locked files? What about Exchange, SQL databases? -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 8:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup Software Question With the cost of disk being so low these days I have several clients doing D2D backups using ntbackup and taking the firewire/usb drive off site and a few of the medium sized clients are doing wan sync replication to a data center. I know ntbackup isn't the most robust but even with 8-10 servers you have all the agents you need (sql/exchange) and you can auto print reports. -----Original Message----- From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 8:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup Software Question I sent my thoughts to you, sorry but never been a big fan of Veritas/Symantec either. Z -----Original Message----- From: Tom Strader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 8:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup Software Question Be glad to once its finished. -----Original Message----- From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 8:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup Software Question Please post the results. Bob Fronk -----Original Message----- From: Tom Strader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 8:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Backup Software Question List Members, Symantec Backup Exec (formerly Veritas) is coming due to be renewed this month and I'm just not very happy with its performance this last year. We continually get backup failures on one server stating it has too much activity to be "snapped" when in fact the server has no activity at all. In looking back at past posts, there are several choices. I have setup a poll and would appreciate it if you would take time to answer a couple of questions for me. Keep in mind we do not have a budget at this time to purchase more hardware and limited budget for new software. If a choice is not listed, please type in your choice and submit the poll. It is limited to the first 100 responders and closes at 5:00pm tomorrow. Thanks in advance for your assistance. http://www.polldaddy.com/p/200110/ Tom S. 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