I just had a sit down with a sales rep and software engineer from
Commvault the other day so we could discuss their software as a possible
replacement to BackupExec. It was an excellent meeting and I was very
impressed with their product and their level of knowledge they brought
to this first "getting to know you" meeting. I also liked that when I
asked "Can I do this?" the answer was always "yes, and here's how." I
always here good things about them on this list which is what brought me
to them in the first place.
One of the things we discussed was making backup to disk my first choice
for backups with tape being used for retention and offsite protection.
Backup to disk is something I played with plenty in BENT 9.1 and even in
BENT 11d. I was always disappointed with the test results. Some data
performed better to tape (AIT-3 SpectraLogic 12K Gator) while other data
performed horribly in comparison to tape. The Commvault answer was the
Veritas isn't coded to write efficiently to disk and that's the reason
for the hit. They also said that this allowed me to effectively use
cheap JBOD instead of relying on a tape emulating disk cabinets for
performance. I'd like to know what your thoughts are on this claim and
what real experience you have with Commvault or Veritas btd.
My disk target is a Dell PE2950 2.4GHz w/ 2GB RAM and Win2K3 SP2 and
gigabit ethernet.
15 x 750GB SATA drives RAID 5 as one logical disk (something I would
split up in my next implementation).
TIA!
- Jer
Jeremy Young
Network and Email Administrator
Advertising Specialty Institute
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