[itdiscuss] FW: Do You Know Anything About...

[Steve]

Tony -

You had said Data Domain - don't forget to look at the EMC EDL.

http://www.emc.com/products/detail/hardware/disk-library-3d-1500.htm

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Allen Madding <amadding at xcentricgroup.com>wrote:

> I don't. SQL would have been a great solution for the issues we
> encountered.
>
> Allen
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> Hi Allen,
>
> Do you recall what version you were using? We've not had any issue like
> that in the past 3 years. I'll have to check but I think we pointed bakbone
> to sql for its db, but I,ll check that.
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>
> Best regards,
> Steve Ollis
> Manager, Technology Services
> Hillsong Church, Sydney
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> We installed and ran Backbone Netvault  when I worked at the insurance
> company a few years back. We discovered that the backup system relies on a
> in-house written database for storing the backup jobs, cataloging tapes,
> configuring the library, etc. The unfortunate part of this is that the
> database is some what fragile and easily corrupted. If the NetVault service
> is not stopped from within the NetVault software before a server reboot, it
> will corrupt the database. Even stopping the service from the services mmc
> will corrupt the database. I found this to be a huge issue and on multiple
> occasions had to rebuild from scratch. And because we were utilizing disk to
> disk (virtual tapes) for backups, rebuilding from scratch took a couple of
> hours and would lose all of our historical information on what tape was
> offsite, due for re-use, etc causing us to have to rescan all of the tapes
> that were in rotation. After a year of struggling with it, we abandon the
> product and went back to BackupExec.
>
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>
> Allen Madding
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> From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org]
> On Behalf Of Dye, Tony
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:41 AM
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> Subject: [itdiscuss] FW: Do You Know Anything About...
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> I'm looking for any information I can get on any of these products.  If you
> know something, good or bad, would you share?  Thanks!
>
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> Do You Know Anything About... <
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> By TonyDye
>
> We're giving some serious consideration to some data management products.
>  I'm looking for any comments, good or bad, about any of them.  I'm wary of
> stepping into anything that no other church/ministry has used before, and at
> the same time, I realize this is some new territory.  Can you help me out?
>
> *       BakBone NetVault <http://www.bakbone.com/product.aspx?id=1304> .
>  Alternative: why not stay with BackupExec?
> *       C2C Archive One <
> http://www.c2c.com/site/products/archiveone/default.asp> .  Alternative:
> The Barracuda Message Archiver
> *       Moonwalk <http://www.moonwalkinc.com/> .  Alternatives: Arkivio,
> CaminoSoft, Enigma Data , SevenTen, probably others, all of whom I know even
> less about
> *       Data Domain <http://www.datadomain.com/> .  Alternatives: ExaGrid,
> SanMelody, and probably plenty of others
>
> If you have any horror stories, I'd sure rather hear them now.
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>  <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tonydye/~4/284609585>
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