* Clear Choice Test of BackBone's NetVault Enterprise Edition
BakBone NetVault
By Tom Henderson, Laszlo Szenes
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BakBone’s NetVault Enterprise Edition supports enterprise backup-and-restoration functions for the majority of hosts and clients we tested, missing only SGI IRIX and SCO UnixWare.
It also supported every type of backup media that we used in testing.
The vendor supplied a long list of applications it backs up and restores for a price, including Oracle, MySQL, Lotus Notes, Sybase, VMware/ESX and SAP.
NetVault provides two main administrative applications with its general system, Configurator and the NetVault GUI. Configurator sets logging levels; sets up ports for communications among clients and storage devices; schedules jobs; and sets tuning parameters and details for backup, restoration and infrastructure for these.
The NetVault application performs simple, full or incremental backups. It can have additional memory buffers assigned in the server, a feature that has a decided impact on performance — more buffers render faster backup throughput.
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