NetBackup's 10 default reports cover topics from job status to media written. The product also lists seven vaulting reports for tape media. Each report can be limited by time and date, job ID, individual media server, or individual client. For more-detailed reporting, you need Veritas' NetBackup Advanced Reporter (a separate product), which parses NetBackup's log files. Even better, DLT Solutions' CommandCentral Service, which works with NetBackup, has the same functionality as NetBackup Advanced Reporter, but allows chargeback and control functionality. You could parse the NetBackup logs and create reports yourself, but such a time-consuming task isn't practical for a large environment.
Although our NWC Inc. setup wasn't expensive ($13,585 for our requested configuration), Veritas' licensing and pricing scheme is difficult to understand. The company should simplify these options.
You can install NetBackup 5.0 clients remotely from Windows onto Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 only. Support for other OSs is good. Support for Linux as a backup client is good, too, but the company supports only Red Hat Advanced Server as a NetBackup Server. New with 5.0 is support for files larger than 2 GB under Linux. Also, this product is one of the few supporting Debian as a client.
NetBackup 5.0 doesn't perform full-system restores on its own, but the add-on Veritas Bare Metal Restore can do that task. Veritas has improved NetBackup's ability to take advantage of disk-to-disk-to-tape scenarios, by upgrading support for disk staging. In addition, NetBackup includes Synthetic Backup. It creates a full backup set out of incremental backups, which provides a faster restore than loading multiple incrementals. NetBackup 5.0 also supports Windows Server 2003 VSS, which NetBackup uses for open-file backups. Through an add-on feature, NetBackup supports NDMP backups using NDMP 3 and 4.
Veritas NetBackup Enterprise Server 5.0, $13,585. Veritas Software Corp., (800) 527-8050, (650) 527-8000. www.veritas.com
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