On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 19:41 -0700, Doran L. Barton wrote: > dataw0lf wrote: > > We use NetVault with two AIT-3 tape changers/autoloaders for archiving > > specifically, and I have absolutely no complaints. > > NetVault is a four letter word. It is exactly because of this kind of piece > of crap software that I abhor commercially licensed software. > > We've got three clients using NetVault right now. Two with LTO drives and > one with DLT. All three of the backup systems are unreliable, unstable and > difficult to manage. I would NEVER recommend NetVault to anyone.
That about sums up my experience with it. > We're installing bacula and playing with it this week. I made the switch from NetVault to Bacula after our backup server crashed and we were having an impossible time getting our license activated by BakBone. That there is a really good argument for not putting your archiving eggs all in a proprietary basket. Since the switch things been much better, although not perfect. Part of that problem is I think we have more data than we really have tape to archive it. But even when all else is working it sometimes freezes during a backup. I have to restart the director and the currently running job is abandoned. Surprisingly, for my purposes that hasn't turned into such a bad thing so I'm satisfied with it. Corey
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