Will DPM protect older W2K boxes as well?
Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 ____ If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed... Oh wait! He does! From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 2:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DPM 2007 vs BUE/Commvault/etc ? One of the real beauties of DPM, end users can do their own restores, and if you have used VSS in the past there is no change for your users. Really slick. TVK From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 1:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DPM 2007 vs BUE/Commvault/etc ? DPM uses shadow copy from what I've gleaned...gives you much more flexibility when it comes to restores... On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Jeremy Young <HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm currently looking at CV vs BUE (I currently use BUE9.1) and I'm looking to accomplish the same thing. Tape is my last location for my data but I want my prod backups to disk first. Why not stage to disk first and then dupe to tape with BUE? Wouldn't you need the same amount of storage to do DPM anyway? Is there something about CV that handles it better than BEU? - Jer Tim Vander Kooi wrote: > > And for only 1000% of the price! :-P > > > > *From:* Don Ely [mailto:HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:09 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: DPM 2007 vs BUE/Commvault/etc ? > > > > CV can do the same as DPM and probably better... > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Roger Wright <HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:HYPERLINK%20> >> wrote: > > We're in the middle of a evaluation of BUE12 and although it works okay, > I'm disappointed that it can only send 1 job at a time to tape. With > over 2.5 TBs on 25+ servers, it would be great to be able to backup to > disk to minimize the backup window and speed restores, and then archive > to tape as convenient. > > It appears switching to Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007 could > provide significant cost savings for us, perhaps enough to allow moving > to a low-end D2D2T system in the process. > > Anyone have comments for/against using DPM rather than conventional > backup packages such as BUE, Commvault, ARCserve, etc.? > > TIA... > > > Roger Wright > Network Administrator > Evatone, Inc. > 727.572.7076 x388 > ____ > > "I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because > I hate plants." - A. Whitney Brown > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
