[SunRescue] Veritas backup for *nix

[Dave McGuire]

  Licenses are a pain in the ass...I run AMANDA.  Initial setup is a
pain, but once it's running, it kicks ass.  I'm backing up 33
filesystems on 12 machines in three states using AMANDA.  It's cool!

      -Dave McGuire

On March 20, Chris Byrne wrote:
> Once again invoking the former storage company engineer hat, Veritas sucks
> less than the other commercial backup products, but is rediculously
> expensive.
> 
> It is also a pain in the ass to manage, and is very insecure in most
> configurations, but that can be said of most backup products.
> 
> This assumes we are talking about NetBackup, and not one of the half dozen
> or so low end backup software products Veritas corp has acquired over the
> past several years. ArcServe was for example a perfectly adequate backup
> package for single user, and ok for a midsize network. Still a pain to
> manage, and still hideously expensive, but less so the netBackup.
> 
> Chris Byrne
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of steve price
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 08:31
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] Veritas backup for *nix
> 
> 
> I've just been told that I may get a corporate license
> for Veritas backup for my Sun, Dec and linux
> boxen.....anybody care to comment on the good as well
> as the bad of this product....thanks!
> 
> 
> 
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