Ha ha, we are still in the same location but as far as backup software goes We have moved on. We settled on Tivoli Storage Manager 6.1
I should have posted this information a couple of months ago but after dealing with NotBackup I didn't want to jump the gun. So I've waited a bit and now that I've backed up the NotBackup server on TSM I'm ready to can the whole thing and repurpose the server - to the latest version of TSM. Currently I'm on a 5.x server that was handy.
I can say that the TSM client installs all went smoothly. All my backup jobs kicked off as scheduled. It's very intuitive on the client side. And that goes for the restore function as well. Of course I did a test restore for each server. Something everyone should do since backups are worthless if you can't restore and finding out you have a problem after the server goes down is too late!
I am installing the newer product, TSM 6.1, on a diferent server to test out more features. And I'm sceduling training on this product for next week. I should post how that goes and progress/notes on the 6.1 version.
Cheers!
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I just came across you blog. Netbackup has been through quite o lot of facelifts, with NBU5->6 being the worst yet experience.
ReplyDeleteThings started working after patch 4 came out. 6.5 has been much more stable.
I have been working with this product for 8 years now, along with a little TSM (not impressed) and Legato (not bad at all).
My main comment would be that unless you fell on the version from 6.0-6.3 (where basically it didn't work), your implementor was the one who sucked.
Your environment seems to be quite simple, and should not have been a problem from day 1.
Yes, the implementation was not done by a very good engineer. However the implementation was done by someone Symantec supplied!
ReplyDeleteThey contracted it out, probably to save money. And after a few months of hassles Symantec sent up one of their own guys from out of state, but he was not effective at making anything better.
I give Symanatec an A for effort, but an F for follow through.
I stated in the past that their support staff does a good job. But that doesn't mean much if the boat has more holes in it than they can plug.