network backup solutions other than OmniBack

[Gary Yu]

Dear all,

I'm in process of researching the replacement of omniback(decision from executives), before I googling, I would like to get some more valuable ideas from you, I don't know much about the products on the market now(besides veritas), so please share me some idea...
we have HP, Linux, Windows NT/2003 servers.

thanks,
Gary

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

We use Syncsort's Backup Express. ( http://www.syncsort.com ) It is just OK. It's not what I would have picked, but I wasn't around when the decision was made.

There is also Legato Networker (Legato is now part of EMC) http://www.legato.com/products/backup/backup.htm

Those are the only ones I have personal experience with.

There are tons of others out there.

[Pete Randall]

Gary,

I had good luck with Legato NetWorker some years ago. In many ways I liked it better than OmniBack but ended up switching to OB because HP's support is so much better. NetWorker is a wonderful product when it's working, but when you need support . . .


Pete

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi,
Well there is Veritas backup utilities (netbackup etc...) We use TSM (IBM) and a collegue is evaluating TINA (Time Navigator)


All the best
Victor

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

For backup of our central disk storage (EMC, CIFS and NFS) we use LEGATO Networker. It seems to be good thing.

HTH

[Gary Yu]

thank you guys for the quick reply, it's really amazing in this forum!

the biggest concern is the support of all these platforms, our data volume is not that big, and second thing to consider is price...
thanks again!
Gary

[Robert Bennett_3]

We use Veritas NetBackup for our enterprise. We are very happy with the product. We have all the flavors you mentioned and then some.

Good Luck

[Pete Randall]

Gary,

I'm pretty sure NetWorker will handle your platforms and the reason we originally purchased it was because it was relatively cheap, though I have no idea what pricing is like now.


Pete

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Well,
I believe you would be happy with either Legato (we had it...) or Netbackup, the other product are really for big sites...


All the best
Victor

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi Gary,
You may want to consider TINA after all:
I just looked at:
http://www.networkcomputing.com/showitem.jhtml?docid=1607sp2

Time Navigator 4.0 Enterprise Edition, starts at $6,350 for one Time Navigator Windows Server, 10 agents, one tape drive and the Exchange Server module. Atempo, (866) 417-0200, (650) 494-2600.


Good
â ¢ Modular design; you pay only for what you need
â ¢ Outstanding multiplatform support
â ¢ Extremely scalable

Bad
â ¢ Full-file incremental backups require more storage space than block- or byte-level backups


Here is the company's URL:
http://www.atempo.com/


The pricing seems to be reasonable...


All the

[Oguz Kutlu Asik]

which version of omniback you are using? I'm using Data Protector 5.1 and i'm quite satisfied. Legato NetWorker is ok though.

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

We too do not have any problems with Data Protector 5.1. It is specially very handy when it comes to handle BCV's,application integrations etc. Another strong part of it is powerful HP backend support.

IBM Tivoli , Veritas Netbackup are also equally good products but they lag on the support front.

Only because of support if the cost offered for all three is same I will prefer Data Protector.

HTH,
Devender

[twang]

you may take a look at the following product - brightStor from CA:
http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/storage/infodocs/basb111unix/basb111hpux_cdl.asp
We use it with SAN option.

[Tony Scully_2]

Gary,

Also worth considering the databases/apps that you are running on these platforms.

I have recently been involved with a rollout of Veritas NetBackup and heve been really impressed with the agents Veritas have for Oracle and Informix. These agents provide libraries that interface the native DB tools (RMAN, onbar in this case) to NBU, so the restore can be done using the database vendor tools, and NBU is transparent to the user.
They also have agents for M$ SQLserver, Exchange etc.

Another question is what storage vendor you use. EMC's purchase of legato will probably mean they start to build functionality into legato that marries closely with their storage architecture (BCV/SRDF/etc.) while other storage vendors will probably look to team with other backup s/ware tools.

Just my $0.02.

Tony.

[C. Beerse_1]

Well, if you are happy with OmniBack, you could propose to switch to DataProtector... For you, it is just the next version (up to version 4.x it is OmniBack, from version 5 upwards it is DataProtector). Migration is verry well described. For the executives, it is an other name!

[Kurt Beyers.]

Gary,

My preferred backup solution is (of course) Data Protector. It runs good, is stable and the support from HP (either through the ITRC forums or the HP support center) is good. Stick however still with DP5.1. DP5.5 still is suffering from a few growing pains.

IBM TSM is a good central backup solution too but is much more complex. And the support from IBM is bad, don't expect any fast solutions here.

Veritas Netbackup is the thirth central backup solution that comes as an alternative for OB.

best regards,
Kurt