SUGGESSTIONS ON BACKUP SOFTWARE W/NW6

[Ronstid]

I am looking for suggestions on the best (and yet affordable) backup software for Netware 6, SP3. I am only backing up 1-2 servers.

My present backup software is BrightStor ArcServe 9 for Novell. I have had nothing but trouble with it. Just as I get one thing working halfway decent, something else goes wrong. I spend 75% of my time screwing with the backups.

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[marvhuffaker]

ArcServe v6.6 was awsome. When they released 7.0, it was crap. Not impressed with 9 either. Now I prefer Veritas BackupExec.



Marvin Huffaker MCNE, CNE
Marvin Huffaker Consulting

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[terry712]

not sure if i like any

agree arcserve was superb until 7 then it was a nightmare. 9 is totally crap. currently binning all arcserve and moveing to backup exec

 

[Ronstid]

Thanks for the posts. I have had the same experience with ArcServe. The Windows side works great. CA has forgotten about Novell. We are planning to dump their products as soon as possible. I may give Backup Exec a try.

 

[sschlicher]

We use Backup exec with the open file option version 9 and have no problems with it.

 

[fredericofonseca]

I use TapeWare 7.0 from

http://www.tapeware.com.

Works great with my Novell servers (5.1 and 6.5), and in one of my windows servers is the only one that can feed my DLT 7000 properly.






Regards

Frederico Fonseca
SysSoft Integrated Ltd

http://www.syssoft-int.com

 

[ITsmyfault]

fwiw
Used Arcserve and agree that it does not work. I tossed it. Been using BUE for the past 2 years and while it has been generally reliable and much better than Arcserve, it has major issues every time there is any sort of support pack. Generally one finds themselves backrevving the TSA or SMDR etc which to me means they are not properly supporting the OS (JMO there) Don't like their OFM - it gave me many abend issues and their support of it is weak bc it is a 3rd party app. We use St. Bernard OFM which is the best there is as far as I am concerned. Just set it and forget it. We're moving to either Syncsort or Commvault's Quinetix (was Galaxy) to handle our clustered SAN environment which admittedly is not 'run of the mill' stuff. BUE can't support it (esp the clusting bit)
If you have just the 2 servers, I'd use BUE. Once it is set up it needs little attention unless you want to SP for some reason. There are also random rights-related errors that can occur (we had some of them) tech support is ok, not stellar. Good for the money.