Netbackup vs. Brightstor

[bdfry]

I wonder why it is that the majority of the questions in the Netbackup forum are "how to do something" while the majority of the questions in the Brightstor forum are "why am I receiving this error!!!"... Things to consider when designing an enterprise-wide backup strategy and have to choose between the two... We are running both of these software packages (Netbackup for UNIX and Brightstor for Windows) and want to eliminate one fo them so that we have a common package doing all of our backups. I've received nothing but headaches from Brightstor (from support to functionality); thank God for my Netbackup implementation on our UNIX boxes, rarely do I have an issue that can't be resolved by looking through the manual or a quick google search. Just some thoughts.....

Brantley

 

[johnny99]

I have never used Brightstor, so I can't say anything about that product.

But I have worked in a lot of shops that used CA products. Some of the products were good, some not.
But in all the shops people were fighting like hell to get out of the "CA grip".
The first time for me was around 1985 and last time was a few years ago.

I worked in one shop that had been using TopSecret for years and they liked the product. 3 years after it became a CA product they moved to RACF. In another shop the story was the same but the product was JobTrack. And in yet another installation it was OPS/MVS.

I am just thinking why so many installations run away from CA. I know why I do.

Personaly I try to keep CA away regardless if they have better products (not that I remember any right of the top of my head)

We use NBU in a Windows only shop, and it's also a great product for us. Not that I don't want more (like some of the nice features that exist under Unix) but it does the job, is stable and it makes me sleep well at night.

 

[CallwaveEmp]

Have just moved from Brightstor Arcserve to Netbackup 4.5. Completely different world. We have about 120 servers, 50% Solaris, 50% Windows NT. Netbackup certainly costs more, but we are much happier with it then Arcserve.

Here is one caveat - we did a lot of share level backups from Arcserve - no agents, just backing up over the share. In Netbackup, this can only be done by a Windows Media/master server.

If you have an existing Netbackup implementation, then I don't see any reason why you should not just purchase your necessary agents, and go for it.