Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Duncan Robertson
I have been using Veritas Netbackup under Solaris (server) with solaris, NT and Linux clients at work and it is a large, complex, and difficult to set up package, with quirks. However it works extremely well for very large setups once setup the overhead is worth it (tape management, restore conveni

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Ed Thomson
Lucas Albers wrote: > How else is it going to have permissions to backup everything on the system? > The port it locked to a particular backup server... > So only that ip address can connect to that port. You're right, I was being vague. It absolutely has to run as root. But I am generally wary o

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Duncan Robertson
I have been using Veritas Netbackup under Solaris (server) with solaris, NT and Linux clients at work and it is a large, complex, and difficult to set up package, with quirks. However it works extremely well for very large setups once setup the overhead is worth it (tape management, restore conveni

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Ed Thomson
Lucas Albers wrote: > How else is it going to have permissions to backup everything on the system? > The port it locked to a particular backup server... > So only that ip address can connect to that port. You're right, I was being vague. It absolutely has to run as root. But I am generally wary o

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Lucas Albers
How else is it going to have permissions to backup everything on the system? The port it locked to a particular backup server... So only that ip address can connect to that port. we use legato to backup: suse 8x,redhat 6x,7x clients,windows nt2k,xpwin2k clients. sgi Works great!, we love it. Have

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Ed Thomson
Martin Foster wrote: > > So far, I've trialled Legato's Networker 7.1, and Veritas' NetBackup 5.0 > code, with IBM scheduled to drop off a media kit for Tivoli Storage > Manager 5.2.2 in a day or so. I didn't like Veritas' software at all -- it worked (moderately) under Linux by running as root

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Lucas Albers
How else is it going to have permissions to backup everything on the system? The port it locked to a particular backup server... So only that ip address can connect to that port. we use legato to backup: suse 8x,redhat 6x,7x clients,windows nt2k,xpwin2k clients. sgi Works great!, we love it. Have

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Ed Thomson
Martin Foster wrote: > > So far, I've trialled Legato's Networker 7.1, and Veritas' NetBackup 5.0 > code, with IBM scheduled to drop off a media kit for Tivoli Storage > Manager 5.2.2 in a day or so. I didn't like Veritas' software at all -- it worked (moderately) under Linux by running as root

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Nate Duehr
NetVault is also "decent" software and generally a lot cheaper than some of the more well-knowns. http://www.bakbone.com/products/backup_and_restore/ Personally I didn't make the decision to use it at one employer, but it worked fine and was cross-platform, etc. Quite flexible also. Install on

Re: backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-05 Thread Nate Duehr
NetVault is also "decent" software and generally a lot cheaper than some of the more well-knowns. http://www.bakbone.com/products/backup_and_restore/ Personally I didn't make the decision to use it at one employer, but it worked fine and was cross-platform, etc. Quite flexible also. Install o

backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-04 Thread Martin Foster
Hello List, Our network has grown to the point where managing a plethora of different backup software packages is consuming too much operator time. I'm looking at moving to a sole platform for all our Debian (x86), Solaris (sparc), and Windows (x86) servers. So far, I've trialled Legato's Netw

backup software: Legato's Networker, Veritas' NetBackup, or IBM's Tivoli?

2004-04-04 Thread Martin Foster
Hello List, Our network has grown to the point where managing a plethora of different backup software packages is consuming too much operator time. I'm looking at moving to a sole platform for all our Debian (x86), Solaris (sparc), and Windows (x86) servers. So far, I've trialled Legato's Netw