NetWorker

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Legato's NetWorker is the current release for the Windows 2000 version. NetWorker is widely used as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) product by companies such as Silicon Graphics and Compaq. The product offers high performance over both network-centric and distributed environments, while also supporting a wide range of operating systems.

With NetWorker, you can run multiple backup jobs to a single tape device, maintaining both high performance and throughput. Tests have achieved over 8 MB/sec (with compression) by using parallelism. However, studies indicate that for this type of architecture, the backup/restore server must be configured with multiple fast processors and sufficient amounts of memory according to the type of activity for the server. As with NetBackup from Veritas, you can accomplish concurrent backups of databases such as Oracle by using additional software from Legato.

Server Recommendations

To take advantage of NetWorker's speed, the backup/restore server must be configured with multiple fast processors and enough memory to match the type of throughput the server is expected to manage.