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Symantec today released Veritas NetBackup 6.5, the company's latest data protection software and cornerstone of its football (*cough* soccer)-themed Storage United business initiative. We've already covered the software's new widgets and what-nots back when it was announced at the Symantec Vision conference in June (which you …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    SAN attached media servers

    I've been using SAN attached clients since v3.4.1, with shared drives, what is the difference here?

  2. Morely Dotes

    The only reason to buy network backup software...

    ...is to have a vendor whom you can blame when you screw up.

    rsync for windows and for linux is freely available. So pissing money away just to have someone you can blame is, to me, a strong indicator of incompetence.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    @Morely Dotes - I suspect you're trolling, but:

    Companies don't buy backup software so that they have someone to blame. I've had a quick look at the rsync web site and here are some things it can't do, that NetBackup can:

    Backup the registry of a Windows box

    Backup any database, without stopping the database fisrt

    Backup to tape

    Backup to disk then stage off to tape

    Access a robotic tape library

    Backup mail systems, without stopping them first

    Provide automatic failover if trying to backup to a failed device

    Provide browsing of recovery files by date, time, client

    Hold multiple versions of a file in backup images

    Backup a raw filesystem

    Provide offsite duplicate media management

    Provide onsite media management

    Expire backups based on schedules

    Bare Metal Restore

    Backup over SAN to shared devices

    Provide an easy to read overview of multiple backup environments from one console

    Integrate with systems such as Tivoli for error reporting

    Provide encrypted datastreams/encrypted storeage

    These are just off the top of my head, there will be a lot more...

  4. Adam White

    NetBackup 6.5

    Hey it can't possibly be worse than Brightstor.

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