Overall Satisfaction with Veritas NetBackup
We are using Veritas NetBackup to manage our backups and offsite data information. I am able to assign specific tapes to a storage unit, track offsite retention, and keep all my backups organized. Since we have all the policies and protection jobs configured, all I need to do is prep the tapes that NetBackup kicks out and send them off-site. Very infrequently do we ave problems or issues. With a basic understanding of backups and some training NetBackup can be configured to meet any company's needs.
- Veritas has a great GUI, the look is a little dated, but it is very functional.
- The media organization is simple and easy to maintain. I have several retention times: 2 weeks, 6 weeks, 6 months, 7 years, and indefinite. I can quickly view and manage all my retention policies quickly.
- Updates are easy and support is very helpful. This makes the transition quick and painless.
- The GUI is very old looking. This does not kill the performance, it just looks to be 10 years old.
- Some things need to be done from the CLI(command line interface). if you have not used this before it will take some learning and a good understanding of Linux.
- The biggest thing that I have seen is that we have our data safely backed up, cataloged, and stored off site. This is a huge step towards ensuring our we can come back from a disaster.