I've worked on NetBackup since around version 3 (we're now up to 7.6) and I find it works well with various tape libraries as well as various deduplication appliances (we currently have Quantum DXi and EMC Data Domain and are evaluating ExaGrid. The ExaGrid after 3 weeks of POC looks really good to us so we'll likely replace the DXi and DD units with it - it unlike the other appliances has settings to recognize the backup types being done such as NetBackup.)
NetBackup has plugins (at additional cost) that work with many different vendor products (e.g. Oracle RMAN, MS-SQL, MS-Exchange, MS Hyper-V) and of course has agents for standard backups of Systems/Files for UNIX (HP-UX, Solaris [probably AIX but I haven't done that]) , Linux (2.4 kernels through 3.x so far - we do mostly RHEL here), MS-Windows (we've done NT through Windows 2012 but currently don't have anything under Windows 2000). I last directly used HP's backup solution when it was still called Omniback. We don't care for EMC as an organization here because of what they did to us with their storage arrays a few years back. Data Domain as an independent company was fine to work with but we'd not likely buy one now because of EMC's ownership. Dell is buying EMC which may improve them overall but then again it is suggested Dell's main interest is in getting VMWare which EMC has the majority ownership of currently. The DXi we originally got was fine and worked well for our purposes (though tape was always faster and our POC shows the ExaGrid is even faster than tape). However, DXi went to post-ingest deduplication to inline which caused us to miss our backup windows until we finally forced them to revert us to original unit. Were I to look at another DXi I'd require onsite POC before I'd be willing to use their newer units. Although DXi, Data Domain and ExaGrid all allow for offsite replication units I doubt any of them allow you to replicate to anything other than another of their units. The replication is done from appliance to appliance over the WAN not via the backup software (NetBackup, Data Protector). If I read you correctly you are thinking you can replicate from your two colo data domains to some other unit at another site and I don't think that works. We haven't done the offsite replication (we duplicate to tape and send the tapes off site) but in ExaGrid's model they say their offsite replication is only of the compressed/deduped backups (not the landing area which is not deduped yet) so it would use less throughput on WAN. NetBackup makes their own deduplication appliance but my reading about them didn't give me a warm fuzzy so we didn't investigate them when we started looking for replacement for our DXi and Data Domain stuff. We also heard from a company called Actifio which does offsite replication and isn't just a backup solution. My own take on it was that it would be a great product to allow us not to be tied to vendor specific disk arrays for data replication in house (i.e. you can virtualize storage from multiple arrays). It also allows for offsite replication to another unit and they suggest they do very little over the WAN because of the way they set it up. Were we doing such replication rather than tape duplications I might have pushed harder for that. If you're doing a DR plan offsite replication of daily backups allowed by the various dedupe units or the Actifio would probably be the best way to plan rather than spinning tapes so long as you put your offsite replication to something in another city via WAN. -----Original Message----- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of tech472 Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 3:52 PM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] HP Data Protector vs Veritas Net Backup Our two EMC Data Domain 640 repositories, one which we keep in our offsite CoLo facility and the other in our main office, have maxed out their capacity sooner than we had planned. Along with the DD's we use Avamar nodes to backup our VMs with Direct Drive Mappings (SQL clusters) and a few physical servers. We also use Veeam to back up the majority of our VM's - approx 100 servers. Replication occurs between the two DDs, approx 63TB compressed. We're currently researching a solution where we combine both DD's at the CoLo and replicate the data to an offsite provider. The main challenge here is finding a solution that talks to the EMC DD/Avamar nodes. Two options we're considering are Veritas Net Backup and HP Data Protector. We used Backup Exec prior to our infrastructure going mostly virtual but are not familiar with the Data Protector product. Would be interested to hear reviews from users of either product. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by hankv...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu