Re: Veritas backup on SBS2003 - no support!

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One reason is the interface - you get a nice list of success and failure messages plus some alerting features which are nice for users.

Some of my clients like to see this list and at a glance see what was missed and when. Yes - its rediculous that the built in stuff doesn't have this (maybe there is a freware front end for it somewhere); Backup Exec is a complete waste of money for what it actually does - little more than the built in stuff.

e.g. the standard SBE edition of BEX does not allow the use of the VSS despite it being standard on all 2003 boxes - unless you buy the Veritas Open File Module to enable the built in service that you already have!? Mad.




Frank McCallister SBS MVP wrote: 
Hi Leythos

IMHO there is no need for any third party Backup software for SBS. The built in software is all you need. In Enterprise large storage environments I can see a need but in SBS a Total backup every night with an Exchange aware package is what is needed.

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