Hi Darragh:
Thanks for the suggestion. Actually there's kind of a funny story there, we did have a CASO server up and running up until about a week ago for that purpose. Then something happened, and I say something because we still have no clue what happened or why it happened and Symantec's support is about as accessible as their product. Anyway, the CASO crashed and somehow brought down all the Backup Exec servers around the world with it, so it was decided above me that we won't be doing that again. I'm interested in migrating to Microsoft Data Protection Manager, it might be a little more robust than backup Exec assuming I get time to learn it and its accessible, but other than that I think we're sticking with what we have. In talking to others where I work, if there is a third party product that takes the place of the CASO we might still be interested in that.
Thanks.
Ryan
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From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh.OHeiligh@Oireachtas.ie
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Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] let's talk Backup Exec
Hay Ryan,
What about using a CASO?
This will allow you to use one instance of backup exec and then you'll see
all the jobs, all the logs, all the media libraries and everything else in
the one application. I also used a client to then connect to that CASO
remotely so I didn't need to remote onto the server.
I'm done with backup exec now fortunately. We've moved onto an enterprise
level product called Data protector. It's almost even more inaccessible
and instead of donig everything in one application, you've applications
for the SAN, the EML, the VLS and then you've also a back end console for
the data protecter UI as well because not all the functionality is
available in the GUI.
Fun times.
Even funnier because I no longer have to do it full time.
Shout if you have any questions I can help with.
Regards
Darragh Ó Héiligh
Fujitsu
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From: Ryan Shugart