What backup product is the best?

[James]

I have a Dell PowerVault 128T and I am currently using
BackupExec 9.1 and I was just wondering what other
products people prefer over BackupExec, if any.

 

[Guest]

....and I am also talking about backing up multiple
servers in a domain. =)

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Backup Exec is great stuff. I have had no problems with it. You'll need the
remote agent (?) to back up other servers, IIRC. Avoid Arcserve - I think
Computer Associates has ruined what was a nice Cheyenne product. ;-)

 

[Colin Nash [MVP]]

Veritas BackupExec is the only one I've ever seen used. The other big
enterprise backup systems would HP OpenView OmniBack and IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager. (Both are components of larger product families.) I guess if you
are using other parts of those suites (OpenView, Tivoli etc) then you would
have already considered using it for backups.

 

[null]

Backup Exec is great stuff. I have had no problems with it. You'll need the
remote agent (?) to back up other servers, IIRC. Avoid Arcserve - I think
Computer Associates has ruined what was a nice Cheyenne product. ;-)

I use Veritas 9.0 in a Windows environment, and Arcserve 6.6 in a
Netware environment. Once you get used to their idiosyncracies, they're
both ok.

My biggest gripe with Veritas is that you get a lot of job failed
results, apparently because it is so picky about what constitutes a
successful backup. However, if Veritas says the backup was successful,
you can be pretty sure it was! Another gripe about Veritas, is that
resolving errors by researching their knowledgebase is a real pain. With
Arcserve, I could usually find and resolve problems relatively quickly
in their knowledgebase online.