Re: Another Opinion
"Most important to me is that NetBackup and NBU Appliances are awesome products and make up the core of a much larger Data Management platform. I wouldn't work for Veritas if I didn't honestly believe that."
I'll give you this for NBU appliances, mate, since their performance is really good.
But for NBU itself, no, sorry. A clusterfuck of tons of processes that communicate via RPC all over the place, security holes everywhere, rendering any update a russian roulette operation.
Also, this strange habit to believe the hostname is all what dictates a backed up object reference in the catalog, and don't get me started on nbdeployutil which routinely sees one object 2 times, making your licensed costs rocket to the roof !
And would Veritas decide one time on a DB engine ? There've been, what ? 6 on the last 15 years ? Used to be flat files, then BSD DBM, Oracle, I lost it after, now seems Sybase ! Possibly Postgres next ...
Sorry for the rant, but once you'll come across, say IBM Spectrum protect (ex-TSM) or even Networker, you'll really change your mind.