By Jeff Yana -
I am looking for a low cost alternative to backup solutions provided by the major players (i.e. Commvault or Symantec). The only requirement is that it must support NDMP. I don't need de-dupe (I am backing up directly to tape), archiving, VMware or Exchange support or any other nice-to-have feature, I am just looking for a solid, reliable and easy to use solution that does not cost an arm and a leg.
I have looked briefly at Zmanda, Netvault, BRU and Bakula. While I have used Netvault and find it solid, its still a bit on the pricey side. Zmanda and Bakula look interesting, but not sure how well they perform/scale in a Media and Entertainment environment. I dislike BackupExec, I think it is rubbish.
Privately I like Netbackup but I loathe Symantec and think it far too complex and expensive a solution for this particular application.
For those that might be interested, here is a nice little matrix that nicely summarizes the features of all the major players.
http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=comparisons
Not included here, but an area of interest to me, is cloud-based solutions. These seem unrealistic for most M&E customers without a whole lot of dedicated bandwidth and massively expensive SLAs.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
jy
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