It's not so much the $300. We paid $500 for the product- but the base product doesn't do much. They want a hell of a lot more money for each tiny little feature. It's like buying a car for $x, then when you go to use it, the salesman saying, "oh, you want keys to the car? That'll be another $y". It's not the amount of money- it's the way they suck it out of you.
John On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 08:46 -0400, Ben Stern wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:19:28PM -0400, John Demme wrote: > > We currently use a good tape drive with Veritas software, with daily > > differential backups, and full monthlies. Anything less than this is > > not acceptable. A hard drive in a USB caddy is fine (I've suggested > > this a few times) but the software needs to be more complex. (IE- I > > screwed up this file two months ago, and need a copy from just before > > that. Restore it. We've done this type of thing in the past.) > > Not to be argumentative, but if you have strong backup requirements, it *is* > rocket science. There are a lot of amazingly bad conditions that you can > run into with backups more complex than disk-based, and Veritas charges the > big bucks because they've thought of most of them. > > For reliable backups, I'd say $300 is cheap. But I don't work there, and > *my* boss didn't just tell me to dump Veritas. So take this however you > choose. > > Ben
