NMM 3.0 or Avamar 7.0 for SharePoint environment?

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Pefect, thank you!

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Hey Slussvakten,

Both of Networker and Avamar all can backup and restore Sharepoint. What products should be used for sharepoint, it is depending on your purpose.

You may know that Networker is a software, but Avamar is mixed Hardware and software product. And Avamar have de-duplication function.

Networker backup the data to Tape or Virtual Tape, virtual disks.

Avamar backup the data to its own space.

So, if your purpose is find a product to backup sharepoint continuously, and you don't have many tapes or virtual disks to store your data, you can choose Avamar as your backup and restore solution.

If you already have many tapes or virtual disks to store your data, and your purpose just like a migration, you can consider to use Networker.

Hope this helps!

NetWorker and Avamar have similar feature sets for SharePoint. Personally I prefer Avamar's single-use plug-ins over NMM which takes a sort of "one module to rule them all" approach but this is a personal preference. I think it's unlikely that one product will be strictly better than the other for SharePoint -- the decision will likely come down to other factors.

As an example, NetWorker's handling of tapes is better than Avamar's so if long term retention is a factor, NetWorker might be a better choice. If the customer has remote offices, Avamar would likely be the better choice since Avamar supports backup over WAN (for very small sites) and the Avamar replicator is extremely efficient allowing the customer to leverage VDPA, Avamar Virtual Edition or a physical single node system + replication for larger remote sites.

User interface may also be a consideration. If the customer is familiar with another tape-based application, the NetWorker interface may be more intuitive.

Hi!

Thanks for your answers!

The gap between NetWorker and Avamar is narrowing when things like DDBoost and the NetWorker Backup and Recovery appliance is introduced.

But I agree, there is still some major differences between the products.

 

My biggest concern is if there are a big difference between them when it comes to SharePoint integration. And since PowerControls handles at least half of the job with restores, I guess it’s fair to say they “take care” of SharePoint in a similar way.

 

So our decision will be made from other factors than SharePoint.

Thanks again!