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Anyone out there using Puredisk? Do you like it? We're using it currently, but having all kinds of issues with it. We're getting help from backline engineers, Business Critical Engineers, and some high level TSE's, but it's still a giant pain in my opinion. Just curious if others have had problems with it. Our setup is single master, 3 media, and 5 PD servers running the 6.6.3a version of Puredisk.

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Hi Howard,

What release of NBU? It looks like you're using the older standalone PureDisk (6.5/6.6) distribution. Symantec is strategically focused on integrated dedup in NBU 7.1 and 7.5, from what I understood.

Jerry Hoetger
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Anyone out there using Puredisk? Do you like it? We're using it currently, but having all kinds of issues with it. We're getting help from backline engineers, Business Critical Engineers, and some high level TSE's, but it's still a giant pain in my opinion. Just curious if others have had problems with it. Our setup is single master, 3 media, and 5 PD servers running the 6.6.3a version of Puredisk.

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I have one PureDisk server at 6.6.3a + some-fix-I-can't-remember. Seems
pretty solid here. Of course the only reason we set up a server rather
than buy one of the 50x0 appliances was that at the time, they weren't
available in the country where we wanted to deploy it. It's a target for
opt-dup from a remote site plus client-side dedupe backups from the local
site. No real problems except for the time one of the security
certificates expired and wasn't automatically regenerated.
--
Jack Forester, Jr.
Senior Data Protection Analyst
Symantec Certified Specialist - NetBackup 7.0 for UNIX Administration
Global Technology Services
Mylan
781 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

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I have many 5x20 appliances deployed and it is pretty rock solid. The
replication feature is great and we have done some remote Master
recoveries. We are still ramping up, but so far so good.

Jerry's comment about Symantec focusing on the appliances is correct. With
the little detail you provided, I would suspect the issues you are seeing
may be more related to your hardware and configuration than the software
itself.

Thank you,
Rusty


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I have one PureDisk server at 6.6.3a + some-fix-I-can't-remember. Seems
pretty solid here. Of course the only reason we set up a server rather
than buy one of the 50x0 appliances was that at the time, they weren't
available in the country where we wanted to deploy it. It's a target for
opt-dup from a remote site plus client-side dedupe backups from the local
site. No real problems except for the time one of the security
certificates expired and wasn't automatically regenerated.
--
Jack Forester, Jr.
Senior Data Protection Analyst
Symantec Certified Specialist - NetBackup 7.0 for UNIX Administration
Global Technology Services
Mylan
781 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, WV 26505

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Jack - I work for Symantec and can tell you that we've got a very aggressive country expansion that will occur over the next 12 months. If you're interested reach out to me directly and I'll make sure you get a roadmap update on country expansion.

Howard Graylin - Sorry to hear you're having problems, glad to hear you have BCEs and backline helping you. More importantly, have you gotten a roadmap update (PD 6.4 is coming soon). We will continue to focus on integrating deduplication into the core.


Peter
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