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Almost 6 years ago

Answered a question: Which software would you recommend for enterprise backup -- Commvault or Veritas Netbackup?

Whatever backup/recovery you use, it all depends on the administrator. Perseverance is key. All backup software are designed to recover data. It is up to the administrator to make it work and ensure that data is recoverable. I've been using/working with a different backup…

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Tape management could be improved but Increaseed RPO, and reduced RTO.

TSM tape management is one of the best in this domain. From collocation, migration, reclamation, to tape offsiting. No need to know what data is on the tape. Just select the file to restore from the client side amd TSM server will do the rest.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Product offers extreme flexibility and scalability. Deployment issues are often caused by a lack of resources.

TSM is a great product. The challenge is, most users are using strategies based on popular backup solutions. Popular backup solutions does not blend well with TSM's strategy, incremental forever, ITIL based administration to name a few. Because of this, users can not…

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Very strong product but lacks reporting and efficient alert mechanism.

For reporting and alerts, use Operations Center or TSM Monitoring. Both offers excellent reporting and alerting function

Over 7 years ago

Contributed a review of IBM Spectrum Protect: It provides incremental-forever backup and disaster recovery management features.

Over 7 years ago

Contributed a review of IBM Spectrum Protect: It provides incremental-forever backup and disaster recovery management features.