Backup Diff

[Venkat_33]

Team,

what is difference between fbackup tool and veritas netbackup?

And also we have orcale db and websphere appl. runing

I need explain to client to go for veritas netbackup.

[Jeff_Traigle · Accepted solution]

Netbackup is an enterprise backup tool designed for a distributed environment. You have a Netbackup server with access to some kind of tape library. Agents run on the systems you want to backup. Defining, scheduling, and running backups are centralized on the Netbackup server.

fbackup is a host-based tool. It is designed for the simplest of scenarios where you run the backup on each individual system. There is no centralized management. Each system must have access to it's own tape device.

[Pete Randall]

The main difference is that fbackup is free and provided with HP-UX while Veritas Netbackup must be purchased and installed separately. That said, you should also consider that you get what you pay for!


Pete

[Chan 007]

Fbackup belongs to HP.

Netback is from Veritas.

Also Fbackup is more faster then veritas in many of my clients place I have noticed.

fbackup doesn't need more skills, where netbackup you need skills and also pay a hefty sum to buy lisence.

if it is just 2 servers just stick to fbackup.

Chan

[Bill Hassell]

fbackup is the closest tool you can get to a commercial (read: costs money) backup product. It can handle any size file or directory and provided it is given a proper config file, will keep all the modern tape drives running at full speed (unless the CPU is very old). It provides instant access to the directory (index) and can restore any file in just a few minutes from a locally connected tape drive. It has resync capability to skip over bad spots on the tape and even has a verification pass using frecover -N. It also has a tape changer interface that allows connecting to a script that will perform automatic tape changes. All of these features are zero cost.

Veritas' Netbackup as well as HP's Data Protector provide all the above with the addition of backup record keeping (indexing of multiple backups) and cenralized backup for multiple servers. For a few machines, these products may be too expensive, but for a large data center, you have to weigh the cost of paying someone to be a tape librarian versus buying a program that automates many of these functions. And like fbackup, the format is unique to each product. Only legacy Unix tools like tar and cpio can exchange data with unlike machines.