+1 on the challenge!! We were audited, and what a nightmare at first.
They tried to charge us for boxes that had been retired, but were
unlocked for legal restore reasons, they also tried to inflate the cost
of clustered boxes and TDP setups. You only have to pay for cores on
the ACTIVE nodes of
Netbackup from Symantec would be TSM's major competitor. You could also look
at CommVault.
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of woodbm
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 2:11 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: alternatives to TSM
If you have a lot of Windows clients, look at TSM's FASTBACK. It is also
disk only, but I believe is cheaper than straight TSM. Does
incremental-only, block-level backups. Might save you $$ and not be as
drastic a conversion. You could keep your non-WIndows clients as they are.
ALso consider i
- "Len Boyle" wrote:
> Not as full featured as the above products, has anyone been looking at
> the open sourced products?
>
We use Bacula (http://www.bacula.org/) for the smaller customers (and
internally) since it does all we need it to do - but note there's some major
limitations in ca
Bryan,
When you ask a TSM forum to recommend some alternative to TSM, that
is sort of like asking a devoutly religious man to recommend some
religion that is better than his. :-) What kind of answer do you really
expect to get?
One alternative to TSM that hasn't been mentioned yet is Avama
Hello Bryan,
This is an interesting topic. Here are several thoughts and questions.
Licensing for NetBackup is also based on the class of the server and the class
of the clients.
The pricing keeps changing as some things that used to have a separate optional
cost are merged into the base cos
At least let IBM know you are thinking about jumping ship and that they need to
help with the pricing on the new licenses or you are gone! You have the
leverage at this point so you might as well use it to your advantage.
Based on our many competitive situations along the way with our appliance
This has been discussed many times, where you can search the List
archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l@vm.marist.edu/ and
similar sites for key terms such as "netbackup" and "backup products"
to review past explorations of the topic.
On 30 dec 2009, at 20:11, woodbm wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been tasked with looking at alternatives to TSM due to recent Audit
> from IBM and the amount of money we just shelled out for the TSM License. I
> am sure most of you have pertaken to this wonderful experience. I don't
> really
