> Here's a leading question for you, John. > > The folks here at my day job run Veritas Netbackup for the Windows > servers, specifically for the Bare Metal Recovery aspect. Can you > compare, and contrast, Bacula's features? > I have never used netbackup. I was talking about backup executive 6.X or 7.X to 9.X which were the versions I used. For me the free user support was lousy most times I was contacting veritas it was because of a bug or poorly documented unwanted feature with their software. I also was very annoyed at the need for all the addons that were needed for a small research group of less than 20 users (open file support, database support, autochanger support, disaster recovery support) and not to mention that each version of windows you upgraded to you needed to purchase this all over again and each addon was about the cost of the original software package. Then with my group there was an added problem as we use workstations and by that I mean a machine with multiple processors and several GB of memory. Remember this was over 4 years ago. We do this in an academic environment so with our academic licenses we install server versions of windows on these machines for around $120US but these machines really are in no way servers. The problem is this required server licenses for all of these machines so in most cases we ended up either not backing the workstations up or using a different software.
Then when migrating our 100% windows network to linux as our servers keeping most of the windows desktops and workstations we were considering our backup options as we new we would have to upgrade the backup software again (that would have been the 4th time in 6 years). I looked at a few open source options because I was very very tired of way I was being handled by veritas and eventually someone on the internet led me to bacula and we have been using it ever since. Besides ending the licensing nightmare and the poor free support we consider bacula sigifigantly more flexable than what we had and the options we purchased with backup executive 9.X. We have the director on one linux server (although at a point we had 2 directors), we have the database on a second linux server and we have multiple storage daemons on other servers and then we have DVD and file storage daemons on yet more machines. I have to end this for now as I am at work... John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
