[rescue] Veritas Backup Exec 8.6

[Gregory.Andy at mtvne.com]

>Writing because Backup Exec is giving me an ulcer.Daily Backups were fine
>for about 6 months, now jobs fail.  

>Each response from Veritas e mail Tech Support has been ineffective. They
>want money for real support, which my company is too cheap to pay for.

>Searching for better backup software, but it seems that Veritas is the best
>from what I've seen.
>How can this be?

if you don't want to spend any money, have a look at AMANDA - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, www.amanda.org

i've used it succesfully with solaris, linux and netbsd all on the same net, on LAN and over a VPN.  Also with differnet single cart tape devs ( DLT7000 and Exabyte 8mm )

not sure how well (if at all) it works without a UNIX type operating system, or how well it works with multi-tape changers...

the only money you could possibly spend on this is on o'reillys UNIX backup & restore although portions of this are online at www.backupcentral.com .

good luck (remember no-one cares how well you can backup, only how well you can restore)

Andy

Andy Gregory


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