We never tested the NetBackup appliance so my impression of it was based on
reading specs and other comments at the time I was looking at it as a
possibility.
It may be it does in-line deduplication rather than post-ingest and that soured
me on it but I'll admit at this point I don't recall
I'm curious as to what model of the appliances you were looking at the
time... the older 5020/5220's or the newer 5230/5330's?
As for the NetBackup appliances not even being on the Gartner "magic
quadrant" list for backup dedupe appliances, I believe it's because of the
criteria they used: "Its
Jeff,
Could you provide specifics re: what you did not like about the NetBackup
dedupe appliance?
Thanks again, greatly appreciate your insight on this topic.
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What is it NBU can put in their DB policies (software) to make their appliances
(hardware) work without RMAN that they couldn’t also have put in to make anyone
else’s appliances (or tape for that matter) work? Given you’re spending a
fair amount of money on NBU software licenses it seems
