Backup Software for Solaris 10
[242 byte] By [jgatsona] at [2007-11-27 8:18:42] 
Can anyone give me ideas on what software to use to back up Solaris 10 Servers ( V240, 490, & 890). We researched Veritas and they want $15,000. Is there any software with some of the same features as Netbackup?Thanks in Advance!!!
# 1
Veritas NetBackup and Legato/EMC's Networker (which you can buy from Sun) are the two major alternatives.
There is also a freeware product called 'amanda', which i personally never tried and the Solaris bundled 'ufsdump'.
Hmm.. thats the ones i can think of at the moment.
.7/M.
mAbrantea at 2007-7-12 20:07:00 >
# 2
without buying any software, how about trying a flarcreate - it's the only software that sun "officially" - or has stated as such on a support line - for backing up for purposes of duplicating a machine in the event of a failure (like having to copy your storage to another machine and build it up)
you may be able to get a number of things like that (Symantec's BMR) - but all of the other choices are $$s..
I guess it really depends what you're asking -
are you looking to use a tape jukebox/silo/library, or periodically copy your rootdisk (or data disks) to some other near site storage
Consider you didn't even state the word "tape" in your initial post, it's kind of hard to figure out where you're going with this - so let's try this from the beginning... what is the purpose of backing up your machine? Is it for nightly backups, one time backup, periodic rootdisk copies, flash archives, DR?
regards, and thanks in advance...
Jeff
jeffrey.sa at 2007-7-12 20:07:00 >
# 3
The backup system I want to set up will be to tape. We have a Exabyte LTO2 tape library. I will be doing nightly backups - probably Full and Differentials. I would like to have something with a GUI interface. I have used Netbackup and Backup Exec on the Windows side. This is why I mentioned Veritas. We think the cost of $15000.00 is a bit costly to backup 6 SUN Servers. I'll take a look at the Legato and the others mentioned.
jgatsona at 2007-7-12 20:07:00 >
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