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March 6th, 2014 08:00
When is it better to use Networker over Avamar alone?
What are the key factors in the limitations of Avamar and when NW would be needed?
Here are a few I could think of snapshots (like of dense file systems), tape out, and cloning. What else?
Does that also mean an additional SW licensing cost? Can it be relative to only the amount of data that will be protected via NW?
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March 12th, 2014 05:00
Both NetWorker and Avamar has its own features, advantage and disadvantage.
When Avamar compared over NetWorker, NetWorker doesn't have any maintenance window which will help you to run backup at any time. NetWorker doesn't need any dedicated hardware, specific OS requirement, which makes NetWorker more flexible.
There are many more advantages and disadvantage with both the products.
One would choose according the requirement.
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Prajith
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June 1st, 2014 13:00
I'd go with Networker all the way, as Prajith mentioned there are a lot of advantages but on top of this with Networker 8.2 WAN client direct (source deduplication) with Data Domain the lines between the two products are getting very blurred.
Plus it feels like there has been a lot more development in NW than AV over the last 12 months, if I was a betting man I'd say that Avamar will get absorbed into NW at some point. Especially now that VDP-A source dedup now works directly with Data Domain meaning you don't need to go to full Avamar.