Overall Satisfaction with IBM Spectrum Protect
To back up customers' environments, especially large enterprise ones (up to 130 TB per day of backups)
- Backup and restore for enterprise customers
- Incremental forever technology reduces storage needs (besides deduplication)
- Can also protect virtual machines
- Provides online backup for databases, mail servers, etc.
- Deployment and configuration is not easy for an unexperienced IBM Spectrum Protect administrator
- Operations center uses a lot of data and needs a lot of storage for larger environments
- Have not seen a redbook about it in the past 10 years
- Incremental technology really helps reduce storage needs for long-term backup retention
- New deduplication storage pools eliminate the need for virtual or physical tape libraries
Do you think IBM Storage Protect delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with IBM Storage Protect's feature set?
Yes
Did IBM Storage Protect live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of IBM Storage Protect go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy IBM Storage Protect again?
Yes
Using IBM Spectrum Protect
Pros | Cons |
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Well integrated Consistent | Unnecessarily complex Slow to learn Lots to learn |
- Run a backup from client GUI once server is configured
- Configure IBM Spectrum Protect 4 virtual environments to backup VMs
- Configure maintenance tasks like backing up your database; need to make sure you have set a password for it, configure your DR plan