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2001/2/7-9 [Computer/SW/Database, Computer/SW/OS/Solaris] UID:20530 Activity:high
2/7     Any recommendations for tape backup software on solaris?  I'm currently
        looking at Legato's NetWorker.  Is it any good?  Can somebody tell me
        other packages so that I can compare?  Thanks!
        \_ Legato works for small and medium scale applications. NetBackup
           by Veritas is better, though, and actually works with large
           scale installations (which NetWorker does not). -ausman
        \_ I second Ausman.  Legato worked fine for me with about a dozen
           Ultra2s and some DDS-3 tape robots, and 4 E4500s with L280
           autoloaders.  If you just want fairly simple backup for a small
              it works. --dim
           network, you might even want to consider not using a commercial
           package at all, but instead doing some form of rdist and dump/tar.
           Interestingly enough, in a multi-OS environment, we actually
           had the most success with IBM ADSTAR... -John
           \_ Legato sucks. Veritas sucks less and has its own problems
              (trashed the filesystem on a NetApp due to a bug they blame
              on Sun and Sun blames on them). Just use dump. It's free and
              it works. (By the way, use rsync instead of rdist). --dim
                \_ dump works for single machine+single device situations;
                   it's pretty weak at doing network backup.  -tom
                   \_ If you say so. My experience with *all* network
                      backup products (and I've used a lot) has been bad.
                      Dump has a lot of problems. So does AMANDA (based on
                      dump). Not any more or less than other products, though,
                      and it's FREE. --dim
                          \- note: you cant do a file system restore with
                          \- note: you cant do an OS restore with
                          legato ... as in it doesnt deal with devices and
                          such. it is for data backup. --psb
                          \_ I'm happy to restore my data.
                     \_ Are you a programmer dim?
                     \_ dump can't deal with databases.  A lot of people need
                        to do stuff like backup the database while it's
                        running.  dump can't do that for you.
                        \_ And you know what, it doesn't have to. If you place
                           your database on a mirrored filesystem, you could
                           take one mirror off-line, backup the database from
                           it and then resync with the other part of the mirror
                           \_ Sheer madness.  Don't send your resume here. We
                              mirror for a reason and we don't want it broken
                              for several hours a day while backups are going
                              off and pray that it resyncs properly.  Insane.
                              If your data has value, you'll use a real backup
                              system that can talk to your db without doing
                              the sort of whacky kludgey stuff you're talking
                              about.
                              \_ So buy a product to back up your DB. Why
                                 backup your whole LAN with that same
                                 product? I have Networker licenses I
                                 don't even use. It sucks that hard. --dim
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