Hi all,

The company I work for brought out a competitor. Now we have to consolidate the IT dept. With that in mind comes a backup software solution. They are using veritas and evault for their backups. We were looking at commvault before all this happened. If possible, I need pros and cons on veritas and evault versus commvault. I have asked sales reps but they all tell me the same "our product is the best out there". I would like to hear from you guys who have used the software. I would like to gather as much information for a presentation on which software to decide on. Any information on this will be highly appreciated, thanks in advance.

Is there anyone who can share some info on this on a users perspective? Did I post this on the right section?

The only one of those that I know is the Veritas software (Backup/Exec and Netbackup) but don't know the rest so can't comment.

If you are looking at future backup strategies have you considered disk to disk (with offsite replication) rather than sticking with tape based backups?
 

Lee Mason
Optimal Projects Ltd
www.opl.co.uk
www.backupsanywhere.com

We want a tapeless backup solution. If we do use tape, it will be a copy to send offsite. The company is a global enterprise and we need a solution that can handle an environment this big.

How much data are you taking about?
 

Lee Mason
Optimal Projects Ltd
www.opl.co.uk
www.backupsanywhere.com

Veritas is now owned by Symantec. It is not a bad product. It has a lot of capabilities through its agents (which are purchased separately) and can be used to create a strong backup strategy. I'm not sure on any other products. I primarly use Symantec and SBS backup for my SBS servers.

If you are looking for a tapeless solution, have you looked at a company called Cybernetics? They have some interesting D2D2T solutions that might work for you.

But as Lee asked, you need to determine how much data you need to backup and what type of growth in your data capacity you will need.  

We've decided to go with Idealstor's Teralyte appliance for tapeless backup. It's a dedicated SATA2 hot-swap cage that uses off the shelf drives.

The reason I didn't just build a hot-swappable SATA2 box myself is that while it's easy to get a hot-swap backplane, none of them are designed for thousands of insert-remove cycles. I plan on changing disks every week; old disk goes in the safe like our tapes do now.

Last time I checked the price of SATA2 media was actually cheaper than what we spend on SDLT2 tape media.

I'm running BE 9.1, 10d, and 12.0 currently.  

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if your using CV already then Commvault has the advantage of the single interface managing the clients and the data for both the backups and the archive, I like the CV approach as to how it handles the data for the DR prospective by allowing copies of the data to be easily distributed to different locations for backups and recalls also the Database is DR backup each day automatically
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