[THIN] Re: OT: Small shop backup software

I prefer Backup Exec. I have NetBackup running on a W2K3 box and would NOT 
recommend it. The interface is some kind of after thought. It is as if the 
Backup Exec people don't communicate with the Net Backup people at all. Strange 
since they are the same company. For instance, I wanted Net Backup to use one 
tape each day until it had used all of the tapes in the loader, and then reuse 
them. There is no mechanism in NetBackup to do that. I had to create a volume 
group for each day of the week to hold the tapes, and then create 7 jobs, which 
specify which volume group to use, for each machine that I want backed up. And 
the restoral interface is even worse.

Jan Broucinek, System Manager
Arthur Rutenberg Homes, Inc.
(727) 536-5900 voice
(727) 536-7168 x245 direct
(727) 538-9089 fax
www.arhomes.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron Oglesby 
  To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 9:55 AM
  Subject: [THIN] OT: Small shop backup software


  Hello all. Time for an OT from me.

   

  Anyway I am just doing a little research on what smaller shops out there use 
for their backup software. I am a fan of NetBackup on linux and maybe something 
like an LTO auto loader or something, but I know that something like that maybe 
out of the price range from some smaller shops. Plus most of the clients I deal 
with use TSM an have backup networks etc. 

   

  Anyway I use Backup Exec for our stuff at RA, and am wondering what smaller 
shops out there are using. Every now and then we look at stuff for our small 
clients but I never really find anything I like without going to BackupExec.

   

   

   

  Ron Oglesby

  Director of Technical Architecture

   

  RapidApp, Chicago

  Office: 312 372 7188

  Mobile: 815 325 7618

  email: roglesby@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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