I used UB at my last job too. Worked great, support was good too.
From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 5:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Backup App recommendations I can recommend UB as well. My previous gig forced me to drop it and only use "free" tools or no tools. Jon On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: Welllllll..... We're in the middle of an implementation of their product, but I'm not very involved in it - just overseeing it for the most part. Let me issue a caveat. Be very, very clear what you want out of your new installation. We're dealing with a change in expectations regarding the behavior of of UB vs. Tivoli Storage Manager. Long story short, while UB does what it says it does, and seems to do it quickly and a great deal more cheaply than TSM, I think that the TSM approach has a great deal to recommend it. In TSM, it was 'incrementals to disk forever, with migration to tape, and a really robust database for tracking files on tapes'. If you wanted to restore something, it was usually on disk, but if it wasn't, it would call for a specific tape, and if that wasn't in the library it would let you know to check it in. Then it would do the restore. In UB, it's a more standard backup rotation, with fulls and diffs and incrementals all available, but if you do D2D2T, make double sure you get the Ultracopy component, or else have a *lot* of disk. If you don't have the Ultracopy component, and the data you want to restore is on tape, you have to restore the entire dataset on tape back to disk before you can do the restore. If you've got a 2tb file server that you back up to a 3tb disk array on your backup machine then trickle off to tape, and you have to restore a single file, and you don't have the Ultracopy component - you have to restore the entire 2tb back to disk before restoring the file. Ouch. The criticality of the Ultracopy component in our scenario was not well explained to us, so we passed on it. Until our first file restore. With that caveat, I can recommend UB, and their support is indeed very good. Kurt On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 05:30, <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://ultrabac.com <http://ultrabac.com/> > > Product nearly always works perfectly. When it doesn't, their tech support > does! > -- > Richard D. McClary > Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group > ASPCAR > 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 > Urbana, IL 61802 > > [email protected] > > P: 217-337-9761 > C: 217-417-1182 > F: 217-337-9761 > www.aspca.org <http://www.aspca.org/> > > > The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is > from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsR (ASPCAR) > and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may > contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not > the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, > and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received > this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and > permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout > thereof. > > > "Bill Lambert" <[email protected]> wrote on 03/04/2010 07:28:10 AM: > >> I've had it with Symantec. Working with them is such a hassle and I >> can't take it anymore. > >> >> Can anyone recommend another product other than Back Up Exec? Would >> be appreciated. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Bill Lambert >> Windows System Administrator >> Concuity >> A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc. >> Phone 847-941-9206 >> Fax 847-465-9147 >> [image removed] >> >> >> NASDAQ: TTPA >> The information contained in this e-mail message, including any >> attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential >> use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended >> recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) >> you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in >> error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying >> of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this >> communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and >> delete all copies of this message. Thank you. >> >> >> > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
