Item Description BakBone NetVault 7.1 Data Protector 5.1 Analysis

Date: 25/02/04 Item Description BakBone NetVault 7.1 Data Protector 5.1 Analysis Client Support Support for a wide variety of client platforms. Data Protector support 15 NetVault supports 20 different OS different OS types, and also types with a total of 80+ versions / supports a total of 51 versions / platforms. ●●●●○ platforms. ●●●●● Both products have similar capabilities and support most common platforms. NetVault supports a much wider choice in backup server platform. Data Protector requires that customers deploy a Windows, HP-UX, or Solaris platform to act as the Cell Manager. Master Server Support Support for a wide variety of Master Server or Cell Manager platforms. NetVault supports 14 OS types across 70+ versions / platforms. ●●●●● Data Protector supports 3 OS types across 10 versions / platforms. ●●○○○ Media Server Support Support for a wide variety of Media Servers, Backup Device Servers, or Media Agents. NetVault supports 14 OS types across 70+ versions / platforms. ●●●●● Data Protector supports 14 OS types across 33 versions / platforms. Of this, 3 OS types and 6 versions / platforms do not NetVault supports a much wider choice support robotic control. ●●●○○ in media server platforms. Multiple Schedules per Backup Policy Writing to Both Tape and Disk The ability to have a policy with more than a single schedule combined with the ability to set different backup destinations relative to each schedule. NetVault policies can support multiple backup schedules. Backups can be directed to Disk or Tape as required. ●●●●● Each backup specification can be scheduled multiple times with different option values. Within one backup specification, you can schedule both ZDB disk and ZDB disk/tape backups, and specify a different data protection period for each individual or periodic scheduled backup. ●●●●● Both NetVault and Data Protector support multiple backup jobs in a single policy and direction of backups to disk or tape. Disk Backup The ability to backup client data to a Disk Storage Unit or File Device. All NetVault Servers and Smart Clients support disk backup. ●●●●● Data Protector is able to backup client data to a File Device. The file device functionality is available only on the Windows, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, and Linux operating systems. The largest capacity available for a file is 500 GB on Windows and 4 GB on UNIX systems. File Devices require media formatting before use. ●●●○○ NetVault disk backup option is supported on a much wider range of platforms and does not have any size limitations. Disk and tape storage are managed in the exact same way under NetVault. Disk Staging NetVault can perform staging of data to disk if required but there is no specific staging option. A backup job can stage the initial backup to disk and then automatically migrate the backup to tape and discard the disk copy. Different retention policies can be set if required. A backup could retain a disk backup for 7 days Automated, policy based staging of backup data written to disk for future and a tape backup for 30 days. ●●●●○ data movement or duplication. Data Protector can perform disk staging of backups and migration to tape. There no built-in mechanism that reclaims disk space for use in performing new backups. ●●●○○ Data Protector Automated Media Copy cannot be used to duplicate a disk backup media type to a tape backup media type. Duplication to tape requires a a scripted solution, increasing costs and administrative effort. Date: 25/02/04 Item Description BakBone NetVault 7.1 Data Protector 5.1 Analysis Shared Disk Backups NetVault allows multiple backup Allow multiple backup servers to servers to write backups write directly to shared disk in a SAN simultaneously to shared disk in a Data Protector does not support or iSCSI environment SAN or iSCSI environment. ●●●●● this facility. ○○○○○ NetVault provides a disk back option specifically for shared disk environments. Inline Copy The ability to create multiple simultaneous copies of backup images to disk and / or tape. NetVault supports inline duplication or migration of a single backup copy to disk or tape. Both tape and disk can be utilized as source or destination media. Multiple copies of backup images can be made using scheduled jobs or triggered jobs. Each backup image can have different media groups and retention periods. ●●●●○ NetVault supports true Point in Time synthetic backups which track moved, renamed and deleted files. This feature is available on all platforms and is available for some applications such as Exchange. ●●●●● Data Protector has no ability to create multiple simultaneous copies of backup images, or backup media. Separately scheduled media copy operations must be configured in order to create only a single copy of backup media. The level of granularity is at the media level, not the backup image level. ●●●○○ NetVault allows the automatic creation of an inline copy of a backup either to tape or disk. All copies with Data Protector must be configured as a separate operation. Synthetic Backup The ability to synthesize a current full backup image from a full backup and one or more incremental backups. Data Protector does not support the creation of synthetic backups. ○○○○○ Synthetic full backups dramatically reduce the number of full backups required. This benefits an organisation by reducing backup windows and overheads on servers, networks and media. Integrated Access Control The ability to control which users can administer the data protection application, and the degree to which they can fully utilize the product. NetVault has built in acess control. On a per user basis, the administrator can allow or deny Data Protector role based over 40 different access privileges security provides strong access with NetVault. ●●●●● control. ●●●●● Both products provide similar functionality in this area. Independent studies have shown that NetVault's TCO can be up to 50% less than NetBackups in the areas of setup, administration, training and support. NetVault is easy to setup and use even in complex environments. Wizard Capabilities Utility functions that eliminate the need to manually configure various settings or properties within the backup application. NetVault has no Wizards. The more complex the environment, the easier NetVault is to setup and operate compared with Data Protector. ○○○○○ NetVault can import images from tape. Disk images can be imported if they are contained on an existing VTL which is added to NetVault. VTL's can be located on external USB or FireWire drives which can be imported into NetVault. ●●●●○ Data Protector includes a wizard that can automatically configure backup devices, and an Oracle RMAN wizard. Import Backup Images The ability to import backup images from both tape and disk. Data Protector supports importing both tape and disk based media. The level of granularity is at the media level, not at the image level. ●●●○○ Both products have similar capabilities and can import tape images. NetVault can support the import of images from devices like removable disk storage if correctly configured. Date: 25/02/04 Item Description BakBone NetVault 7.1 Data Protector 5.1 Analysis Enterprise installations with many media servers / media agents and database agents will need to incur an outage when upgrading Data Protector. Customers with database or e-mail systems will need to schedule simultaneous outages concurrent with the Data Protector upgrade. Dynamic Upgrades The ability to perform on-the-fly data protection application version upgrades. Data Protector 5.1 upgrades from prior versions requires that the Cell Manager, any clients with database integrations, and all media agents must be upgraded simultaneously. There is no ability NetVault supports mixed version to perform incremental upgrades. and incremental upgrades. ●●●●● ●○○○○ NetVault requires port 21003 to be open for communication between the backups servers and clients. 7 other port maybe used for backups. These ports can be specified on a per-client basis depending upon firewall requirements. ●●●●● Firewall Ports The ability to control what ports are used, as well as the ability to use a minimal quantity of ports. Data Protector includes the ability to limit port ranges used for Data Protector processes, as well as the ability to limit port ranges used by particular Data Protector Both products have similar capabilities agents. ●●●●● with implementation specific differences. Data Protector provides administrative access via a local GUI or command line, as well as through a remote administration console. There is no web based administration console available. ●●●○○ Both products provide similar functionality in this area, although Data Protector only supports executing the GUI on Windows, HP-UX, and Solaris platforms. NetVault allows GUI or command line administration on a broad range of platforms. Administrative Console NetVault provides administrative access via a local GUI or command line, as well as through The ability to perform administrative a remote administration console. There is no web based functions on local and remote platforms via command line and GUI administration console available. ●●●●○ interfaces. Storage Units The ability to define secondary storage destination resources at a logical level rather than having to reference specific backup devices. NetVault allows the creation of "Target Sets" which can represent different types of storage. There is no limit on the number of Target Sets or the combination of media backup types. Backup policies use target sets when specifying the backup media. ●●●●● Data Protector does not support the use of logical storage units. Backup specifications point to specific secondary storage libraries or devices. ○○○○○ Data Protector backup specifications must maintain a detailed list of exactly which backup devices can be used. Adding additional backup devices to a media agent implies modifying existing backup specifications before the backup devices could ever be used for backup. Storage Unit Groups NetVault "Target Sets" can be created to contain a any number of different backup media. NetVault will automatically prioritize backup media based on location to the backup client. If the highest priority media device is The ability to define secondary storage destination resource groups not available, NetVault will automatically try the next media at a logical level rather than having to reference specific backup devices. device. ●●●●● Data Protector does not support logical representation of secondary storage devices, or the grouping of these resources. ○○○○○ Data Protector has no similar functionality. Backup devices available to a particular backup specification are listed and utilized based on alphabetical order. Date: 25/02/04 Item Description BakBone NetVault 7.1 Data Protector 5.1 Analysis Media Database Backups The ability to simply backup the media database. NetVault provides a plug-in to backup the media database online. There is no problem with spanning media or mixing media database backups with regular backups. ●●●●● Data Protector provides an IDB backup utility to allow online backups of the database. Recommend a database consistancy check is performed for all IDB backups. This check Data Protector IDB backups can take will take 10 minutes for each 1GB several hours to complete because of of the database. ●●●○○ consistancy checking. Backup and Administration Reports The ability to provide the backup administrator with management and operational information. NetVault includes 29 reports and a GUI report builder to allow an unlimited number of customised reports to be created. An administrator can effectively report on any information in the NetVault database. Reports can output in multiple formats including HTML, text and comma delimited. The GUI allows reports to be scheduled and distributed through e-mail austomatically. ●●●●● Data Protector includes 28 reports. There is no report builder to customise reports and report must be run from the command line. ASCII and HTML report output is supported and reports can be distributed through e-mail. ●●●○○ Data Protector has a fixed number of reports and provides limited filtering capabilities. Reports are run through command line options and there is no report builder to create your own reports. Tape Drive Status Tracking The ability to track the tape drives status. NetVault allows you to track the status of tape or disk storage and the current action such as loading Data Protector does not track a tape or writing data. ●●●●● tape drive status. ○○○○○ Data Protector provides the operator with limited information to the status of the tape library. Cluster Support Microsoft Cluster Server support NetBackup supports clustering with Microsoft Cluster Server on Master Servers, Media Servers, and for client backups. Supported Data Protector supports using Microsoft NetVault cluster support is currently in Beta. The next release operating system versions include Cluster Server for 2 – 8 node clustering Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, of the Cell Manager, and for client will support Microsoft Cluster and Windows 2003 (32 bit). ●●●●○ backups. Services. ●●●○○ Data Protector supports using VERITAS Cluster Server versions 1.2.1 through 3.5 for clients, Media Servers, and Master Servers on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, AIX 5.1, Solaris 7 and 8, Red Hat Advanced Server Data Protector supports using VERITAS 2.1, and HP-UX 11.0 and 11.11. Cluster Server versions 1.3 and 2.0 for ●●●●○ disk agents only on Solaris 7 and 8. Cluster Support VERITAS Cluster Server support NetVault can operate in a Veritas cluster server but does not provide direct support. ●●●○○ Cluster Support Other Cluster Support, NetVault supports NetWare Clusters. NetVault 7.3 will support Data Protector supports Novell Redhat Cluster Services, other NetWare Cluster Services version cluster options are in 1.6 on NetWare version 6.0. Other clustering is a case-by-case basis, development. ●●●○○ ●●●○○ most will work. NetVault 7.3 will support Exchange and MS SQL Server Clusters. NetVault can backup clusters of most applications but does not provide direct support. ●●●○○ Data Protector integrates with cluster-aware applications that have already been installed on the cluster as virtual servers by using the application’s virtual server configuration. ●●●○○ Cluster Support Application Cluster Support Other clustering is a case-by-case basis, most will work. Cluster Support HP MC/ServiceGuard NetVault can operate in a HP MC/ServiceGuard cluster server but does not provide direct support. ●●●○○ Data Protector supports using HP MC/ServiceGuard version 11 for Cell Managers and clients running HP-UX versions 11.0, 11.11, and Data Protector provides superior support 11.22. ●●●●● for HP MS/ServiceGuard. Date: 25/02/04 Item Description BakBone NetVault 7.1 Data Protector 5.1 Analysis Multiplexing The ability to multiplex multiple simultaneous client backups into a single stream of data to be written to NetVault does not support backup media. multiplexing. ○○○○○ NetVault has a different philosophy and avoids multiplexing. NetVault recommends disk based backups Data Protector supports multiplexing (concurrency) up to 5 instead. This allows multiple clients to simultaneous backup without mixing the disk agents into a single stream data and avoids all the issues of targeted to a single tape drive multiplexing. device. ●●●○○ De-Multiplexing The ability to de-multiplex backup images that have been multiplexed onto a single tape stream. No support for De-multiplexing required. ○○○○○ While Data Protector is able to write multiplexed backups to improve backup performance, there is no de-multiplexing capability. ●●●○○ For restores, Data Protector reads multiplexed data from the media and assembles only the parts needed for the selected object. The time it takes to scan media for relevant data is elongated by having to pass over data that is not required for the restore. When more than one object is restored, Data Protector must rewind the media and read the parts for the other object. Detection of Moved Files Selectable Cross Mount Point Control Failed Restore Recovery The ability to include files that were moved, renamed, or newly installed in incremental backups. The ability to backup or archive all files and directories in the selected path, regardless of the file system boundary. NetVault provides Point-in-Time backups that detects whether files or directories have been moved or removed. This is important when restoring from a full backup with incrementals. By tracking when files are moved or removed, NetVault ensures that a restore of data on a certain date does not contain files or directories that had been deleted or removed before that date even if the files are on the previous backups. Data Protector does not include ●●●●● this functionality. ○○○○○ NetVault allows you to select if backups will cross mount points. ●●●●● NetVault offers superior functionality in this area by tracking deleted files as well. Use of TIR increases the space required and slows down the backup. If TIR was enabled for a backup, restores are only supported at the directory level. Without this functionality, the Data Protector administrator may need to specify additional paths in the backup specification. Data Protector does not include this functionality. ○○○○○ Policy based automatic retry for failed client restores. NetVault allows you to specify the number of times, time interval and priority of a failed restore job. Data Protector does not include ●●●●○ this functionality. ○○○○○ NetVault allows you to specify the number of times, time interval and priority of a failed backup job. Checkpoint restart will be in a Data Protector does not include future release of NetVault. ○○○○○ this functionality. ○○○○○ NetVault will offer check point restart in a future release. Failed Backup Recovery The ability to take checkpoints during a backup based on the backup policy. NetVault will offer check point restart in a future release. Date: 25/02/04 Item Description BakBone NetVault 7.1 Data Protector 5.1 Analysis Cleaning Cartridge Usage Tracking The ability to track the number of times cleaning cartridges have been used. NetVault tracks drive cleaning and cleaning cartridge usage. NetVault can also control the tape library cleaning operations through generic cleaning support. Data Protector does not include ●●●●● this functionality. ○○○○○ NetVault tracks and can control the cleaning cycle of any library type with the generic cleaning option. Network Bandwidth Throttling Exclude List Support The ability to control the network bandwidth utilized during client backup. NetVault does not support network bandwidth throttling. ○○○○○ The Data Protector scheduler allows network load settings of low, medium, and high. The level of granularity provided is done so on a schedule basis, which facilitates the concept that some backups performed during certain calendar days or times of day may consume different quantities of network bandwidth based on NetVault has no current plans to add this anticipated network load. ●●●○○ option. Data Protector supports exclude lists. ●●●●● Both products support exclude list backups. The ability to exclude a subset of the NetVault supports exclude lists. backup path from a backup. ●●●●● NetVault remote client installs currently require scripting. This feature will be in a future release. When the client is install, all configuration and software can then be delivered remotely. ●○○○○ Remote Client Install The ability to perform “push” client installs. Data Protector supports performing remote client binaries over a network. Cross platform client installation is supported. ●●●●○ Data Protector has limitations such as the inability to perform remote installs on certain Windows operating systems. The Data Protector installation server provides the ability to select Media Agent when performing a remote install. NetVault remote installs currently have to be scripted. This is planned for a future release. Remote Media Server Install The ability to perform “push” Media Server or Media Agent installs. NetVault remote smart client installs currently require scripting. This feature will be in a future release. ●○○○○ Data Protector supports performing push Media Agent installs. ●●●●○ Framework / System Resource Management Integration(s) The ability to integrate into a wide variety of System Resource Management or Framework architectures. Data Protector OpenView Integrations allow you to administer, monitor and measure the performance of Data Protector processes using System and Application Management applications such as HP NetVault supports SNMP and can OpenView Vantage Point Operations, HP OpenView DSI, be integrated with any standard system management tools. ●●○○○ HP OpenView ManageX. ●●●●○ Data Protector has a advantage if the customer is already using HP OpenView framework products. Outside of integration with HP OpenView, both products appear to have similar integration properties with regard to framework / SRM products.