We have many customers currently using our products to perform enterprise backups with an HP 3000 as a backup host, a backup client
or a stand-alone backup server. Hiback runs on all the platforms originally listed in this thread plus many more besides. The HP
3000 can be the main backup server receiving backups from all the platforms and writing them to a tape library, which it controls,
or it can send its own backups to another Hiback server in the enterprise (MPE-based or any other Hiback-supported platform.)
Hiback allows MPE servers to either share a library with other systems or control the libraries themselves.
Some of our customers are on this list and I can assure you they are getting much better performance that 58.3 KB/second over a
100-BaseTx connection. I would certainly not call you nuts for using a product that provides that kind of performance, but suffice
it to say that we consider it our product of choice when it comes to performance evaluation.
And yes, Hiback does support Novell.
Denys
-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Dane Bodamer
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 9:25 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: back up solution for 3000 and rest of network
Hello All,
I am actually doing some testing now using Data Protector 5.0
(former OmniBack II). And yes, it was real slow over the 100 BaseT link.
It took like 20 minutes to backup 70Mb ... But Data Protector allows you to
use locally connected drives to the system you are backing up. Granted that
you lose the library scenario of having all your tapes in one place, but you
do have one software manager for archiving and managing your backups with
multiple platforms. I'm backing up Sun, Linux, HPUX, and coming soon
Win2000. It is all supported. I'll let you know how all the testing goes.
After saying all of that, is there anyone out there that knows Data
Protector and thinks I'm nuts for using it :) It seems to be working fine
so far. Let me know.
Thanx
Dane Bodamer
Systems Manager
MicroWarehouse Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne R. Boyer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 10:15 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] back up solution for 3000 and rest of network
In a message dated 3/14/03 6:44:22 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
> without hp s/w engineers, even less is possible. - d
>
>
Ah yes, I would agree that knowledgeable programmers are useful! Of course,
HP has I suspect, been laying off a few of those people. With source code
and $$$$ much can be accomplished! Maybe even gigabit Ethernet!
W.
PS: Despite reality, I refuse to be a pessimist regarding MPE!
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