[lug] Backups Again

[Alan Robertson]

Mike Loseke wrote:
> 
> Thus spake Stephen G. Smith:
> >
> > Okay, now how about some ideas for
> > commercial backup software...
> >
> > Any Price..Any UNIX
> 
>  Client, server or both? At work we're using Solaris as the servers
> running both Legato Networker and Veritas and I have my linux boxen
> running linux versions of the clients for both products with no problems.
> (We also do HP-UX and WinX.)
> 
>  We've been running Legato for quite some time and have had no end
> of problems with the indexes corrupting themselves at the slightest
> provocation. We're getting ready to switch over fully to Veritas as it
> behaves much better (for our environment anyway). We can also plug our
> NetApp RAID's directly inline with the backup servers' SCSI chain and
> back them over that instead of through an ethernet proxy server (pain
> in the butt and can be slow).
> 
>  Both Legato and Veritas are expensive, but you did say "any price". :-)
> 
> http://www.legato.com
> http://www.veritas.com
> 
>  I can give you the sales guy for this region at Veritas if you like.


About 3 years ago, at Lucent, we spent a lot of time examining and testing the
Backup systems availabile and choosing one for our 2+ TB server farm.  We
choose Veritas.  One of the reasons was concerns about index corruption and
related issues.  We have been pleased with it since.


	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at bell-labs.com