We performed a long study on backup solutions which included
Retrospect and Veritas. The two top performers were Retrospect and
Veritas. They were both equally capable in their own ways. Our
final choice was Retrospect mainly due to cost. Veritas is an
excellent backup system for large file servers and is priced
accordingly. Retrospect is currently the only reasonable choice for
large installations of desktops for backups.
In our current configuration we have 6 Retrospect servers backing up
an average of 250 desktops each. The bulk of our desktops are PCs
including Win 95, Win 98, and Win NT. We don't backup everything on
each desktop. This cuts on bandwidth and catalog sorting.
Our study found that Veritas was excellent for backing up PCs and
reasonable for backing up Macs.
Veritas will update their Mac client as needed but not necessarily as
soon as new Mac OS's come out.
Veritas's "complete" restore for Win NT was too labor intensive to
reasonably create boot disks for all our systems.
Veritas's multiple stream backup was only about 12% faster than using
multiple Retrospect Servers.
In our configuration Veritas was about $98 per client averaged over 5
years, Retrospect was $14 per client averaged over 5 years. This
included cost of servers, upgrades, software and man power.
>Thanks to all for your response. Because of them Solstice has been
>put on hold. But of course our net admin now is looking at "veritas
>netbackup". If anyone has any experience with that I would love to
>"share" it with the net admin.
>
>So far Retrospect has come up the winner, but it is only being used
>for Macs. I have proposed that he use it also on the Windows
>machines, but he hasn't bitten yet.
>
>Tom
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