As mentioned in another thread, I am using the Sun-branded version of Networker (for now) and will be switching to Legato-branded Networker in a month or two.
Info on the Sun-brand product is at
Since I am under software maintenance with Sun I received upgrade discs for V7.0 "Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup Software" and I upgraded one of my 6.1.x servers to 7.0 and that is when the fun began!
I had been doing backups to a disk array, and then in turn to tape ('staging' in the Netwoker parlance) and before V7.0 this function was a part of the standard server.
Before V7.0 it treated a file device pretty much like a tape drive: If a backup to the disk was running you had to wait for it to finish before you could read a file from it to do a restore.
Well, with V7.0 they have expanded the disk backup capability greatly so you can now do concurrent backups, restores, etc. and all sorts of other stuff (details at:
The downside is that after the upgrade to V7.0 the backup to disk no longer works in any shape or form without a 'DiskBackup' enabler or license. I called Sun and logged a ticket with them to at least get an enabler code (45 days) but that even seems to have them in a tizzy: they have enabler codes for just about everything except DiskBackup, so they are off making lots of phone calls to figure out what to do about it.
Whether you are using the Legato or Sun software though, you will have a problem upon upgrading to V7.0 if you are using backup to file-type devices (disks)- it will stop working without an additional license.
My basic complaint is that it appears I must purcha$e a licen$e to still use the disk at all and that this is a retrograde, or crippling of previous existing function. I understand there is more functionality in V7.0 DiskBackup, but they should have preserved the primitive disk function I already had in V6.1.x for no additional cost.
I am not sure what the DiskBackup additional license price is but it appears to be tiered pricing: the larger the disk backup space, the larger the license fee. The Sun pricing appears to range from $1300 up to $23,475.
Info on the Sun-brand product is at
Since I am under software maintenance with Sun I received upgrade discs for V7.0 "Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup Software" and I upgraded one of my 6.1.x servers to 7.0 and that is when the fun began!
I had been doing backups to a disk array, and then in turn to tape ('staging' in the Netwoker parlance) and before V7.0 this function was a part of the standard server.
Before V7.0 it treated a file device pretty much like a tape drive: If a backup to the disk was running you had to wait for it to finish before you could read a file from it to do a restore.
Well, with V7.0 they have expanded the disk backup capability greatly so you can now do concurrent backups, restores, etc. and all sorts of other stuff (details at:
The downside is that after the upgrade to V7.0 the backup to disk no longer works in any shape or form without a 'DiskBackup' enabler or license. I called Sun and logged a ticket with them to at least get an enabler code (45 days) but that even seems to have them in a tizzy: they have enabler codes for just about everything except DiskBackup, so they are off making lots of phone calls to figure out what to do about it.
Whether you are using the Legato or Sun software though, you will have a problem upon upgrading to V7.0 if you are using backup to file-type devices (disks)- it will stop working without an additional license.
My basic complaint is that it appears I must purcha$e a licen$e to still use the disk at all and that this is a retrograde, or crippling of previous existing function. I understand there is more functionality in V7.0 DiskBackup, but they should have preserved the primitive disk function I already had in V6.1.x for no additional cost.
I am not sure what the DiskBackup additional license price is but it appears to be tiered pricing: the larger the disk backup space, the larger the license fee. The Sun pricing appears to range from $1300 up to $23,475.
