FWIW I would thoroughly recommend Commvault. I have no experience of their AIX stuff (we do backup a Linux box) but with everything else we do, it has its quirks as all backup software does, but I don't walk in of a morning with that wonderful "How many will have failed last night then?" feeling.
Any questions yell. -----Original Message----- From: Nigel Parker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 03 August 2012 10:21 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup software Hi Ok point noted :-) Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 03 August 2012 09:47 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup software Keep your licensing options in mind - a lot of vendors (I know Commvault do) now license either on traditional agents or off capacity - depending on quantity of data it can make a difference which way you go. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Nigel Parker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 03 August 2012 09:23 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup software Hi Ok thanks for the suggestions So I will investigate Commvault and EMC I thinks the Microsoft solution would only support Microsoft clients As a lot of vendors do and that would be no use to use her :-( The problem for us is the old version of AIX that we HAVE to use one is a warehouse package and doesn't run on newer versions and of course would cost to upgrade it the other is an ERP system that wont work on a newer version and is about 60k to upgrade Thanks For the suggestions -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 02 August 2012 15:59 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup software At (very) face value Commvault will cover all of that. -----Original Message----- From: Nigel Parker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 02 August 2012 09:07 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Backup software Hi Looking to change our backup software and are open to recommendations Our servers are a range of Windows 2000 2003 with Exchange 2003 and a couple of version of Microsoft Sql server 2000 and 2005 We were looking at Symantec backup exec These machine will have a dedicated backup server and an lto5 tape drive We will backup to disk and then to tape (we have a requirement for an off site tape backup so this must remain) The backup will easily fit on 1 lto 5 tape and with data volumes this should be ok for 2-3 years HOWEVER We also have 2 IBM AIX servers running version 4.3.3 and version 5.1 These will backup again to a dedicated server with an ultrium 5 tape drive The IBM servers cant be upgraded! Looking for a "supported" solution We looked at backupexec and netbackup however only Older an now none supported version will work with our Aix versions the new version "may" work but would be unsupported! (no good for us) Also they are charging quite a high premium for backing up to tape Suggestions are welcome especially first hand experiences If any software is available that will do the whole thing (backup windows and Aix) this would be an advantage and of course keep down the costs Currently we are using OPENBACKUP now unsupported and are looking at ARKEIA (a spin-off of openbackup or parallel version) Nigel Parker Systems Engineer Ultraframe (UK) Ltd Tel: 01200 452329 Fax: 01200 452201 Web: www.ultraframe.com Email: mailto:[email protected] Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this email are my own and may not represent those of Ultraframe (UK) Ltd. 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