Oops...don't think this made it the first time... Hi Petur-
I do quite a lot of work with OmniBack (OBII). Basically, it is like most of the other backup products out there, in that everything is based on full/incremental type architecture (what I refer to as the "ArcServe mentality"). The good part about OBII is that it's a pretty simple product. You can generally figure it out pretty easily just by playing around with it. The down side is that it has virtually no tape management/tracking capabilities at all. You can update the location of a given volume, but it must be done manually...there's no automation for that piece at all. There's also no really obvious way to create a duplicate set of data to be sent off site, or not without doing some fairly complex scripting. You can duplicate a tape in OBII, but the trick is to figure out which tapes to copy. All that stuff is a manual operation. It works well in small environments, and works particularly well with standalone drives. In general, however, for an environment of any size, and especially with a larger library, it doesn't scale upwards very well. -Lloyd Pétur Eyţórsson wrote: > > Hi > > I need to convince my customer why he should use TSM over Omniback. I know nothing >about "Omniback", i don´t even know if im spelling it right. > > Does anyone know the main differance in these 2 backupsystems. > > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > | | > | Kvedja/Regards | > | Petur Eythorsson | > | Taeknimadur/Technician | > | IBM Certified Specialist - AIX | > | Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional | > | Microsoft Certified System Engineer | > |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| > | Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700 | > | Borgartun 37 105 Iceland | > | URL: http://www.nyherji.is | > |_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Lloyd Dieter - Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260 fax:716-389-1267 -----------------------------------------------------------------
