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rbkguy
Level 4
14 years ago

Adding a media server to remote offices

p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } Hi Everyone! I was hoping to get some feed back on and issue I am currently tasked with. We are currently using Netbackup 6.5.5 in our head office with about 100 ser...
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  • alazanowski's avatar
    alazanowski
    14 years ago

    We ended up migrating from BE for our remote sites to Netbackup, but we also did it under the per TB licensing. I am pretty sure Netbackup 7's model seems to be based on the per TB and no longer a individual license (your current licenses are then converted to the relative value on MSRP and translated into the PER TB offering). I'd be surprised with such a large vendor as a federal government that they wouldn't offer this (it was initially the large organizations that they tested this out in). I think the minimum requirement is that alltogether all your datacenters meet at least 20 TB of protected data in licensing. I prefer having them netbackup media servers for sake of management through one master (no, you should not need additional master servers, just make sure you have enough disk storage on your master for any increases in image database size).

    I would not recommend Puredisk personally. Use the media server deduplication pools in netbackup 7- the backup policies and job manager are significantly easier to control in netbackup than they are in puredisk (PDDO to a puredisk pool doesn't allow for client-side deduplication, but a media server deduplication pool does with the netbackup 7 client on specific os's). We've ended up using the netbackup 7 client deduplication on all of our remote sites (totaling around 1400).

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mrinal_sarkar62
Level 6
14 years ago

Hi,

What I can see that you were bit confused...........

let me give you the advanteges and disadvantages for both:-

Advantages of using BE:-

1. Using BE is very good in handling windows based database.(doesn't use TAR format as NB uses  for tapes backup, NB can not directly backup GRT enabled data  to tape)

2. BE is easy to operate.

Disadantages :-

It is much leser robust then NB. NB console is much faster then BE console(as it use mostly JAVA) and can be installed in UNIX system also. BE console is only for Windows. BE is more dependable to Windows, If the Windows is not protectly so thus BE is in turn not so protected to attaks.

 

Advantages of NB:-

1. Central managa console for master serer, for every thing.  You can have OPS server for better managablilty.

2. Robust then BE and can work well in hetrigenous platform.

Check this link below:-

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS212502097020100126

Distavantages :-

2. Bit CLI based controls rather then GUI controls(bit critical for starters)

If the buget is tight I will advice to go for Symantec Backup Exec, as both BE and NB uses more or less same technology in a different way.

If the budget permits go for Netbackup(Option 2) this will help you more in expanding in future.

Another link given below for a quick features of these products:-

http://www.isdsecurity.com/products-symantec.php

It's better not to take dission by your self . Talk to you managment, show them the advantages and disadvantage of both the products and also show them the expandability and intrigation options of Netbackup with products.

I guess , you 'll have the right thing in future so that no one will play a blame game..

Thanks