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Contents 
Introduction
BrightStor Arcserve
Legato Networker
Tivoli Storage Manager
Veritas Backup Exec
Specifications
How we tested
Checklist
Editor's choice
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Applications support is quite good with SAP, Oracle, Exchange, Domino, and SQL agents available. Exchange support is particularly good with snapshot support on Exchange 2003 as well as the added flexibility of backup and restore of individual mailboxes and backup of single instances of attachments sent to multiple recipients, saving on storage space and reducing the backup time. Media support is very good and includes most optical media, tape drives, hard disks, and SANs.
The software is quite painless to install and includes a very simple wizard that takes the user through media management defaults, device configuration, and logon accounts.
The user interface at first looks a little cluttered as the applet launches displaying the overview, this includes a series of links to various functions and a handful of wizards to assist the user. That said, the user interface is one of the easiest and clearest to navigate. The option or feature can be found by selecting one of the tool bar buttons: backup, restore, job setup, alerts, reports, devices, and media -- pretty easy really.
The various displays look a little complex at first glance but this is because all the options associated with the function are available directly from links down the left of the display.
Configuring and performing backups and restores is a doddle with the simple tree structure -- in addition to drive partitions it also includes mailboxes and public folders. Scheduling is flexible and easy to configure with a user definable Time Windows to ensure backup tasks aren't missed if a previous task ran overtime.
With the Admin Plus option installed the user has a large selection of reports ranging from Alert Logs and Job Status to Media Vaulting and Server Workloads.
Alerting is very good but not quite as extensive or flexible as some of the other enterprise packages, perhaps an unfair comparison all things considered, but is nevertheless not lacking in the critical areas.
| Product | Veritas Backup Exec for Windows Server v9.1 |
| Price | AU$4263.60 |
| Vendor | Veritas |
| Phone | (03) 8866 8000 |
| Web | www.veritas.com.au |
| Interoperability |  |
| Only supports Windows OS for servers. Although client support is broad it does not include HP Alpha. | |
| Futureproofing | 
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| It is the least capable as the infrastructure grows beyond SME. | |
| ROI |
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| The least expensive solution tested but it also has the least potential for infrastructure growth. Includes extended 24x7 support. | |
| Service | 
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| Extended support (included in scenario price) is very good and Busines Critical support is even better. | |
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