Atempo Time Navigator

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Atempo Time Navigator

Anyone used Atempo's Time Navigator 4.0 backup software? I'm currently evaluating it and there seems to be some limitations with it. Especially in the database, or the catalog as they call it. It's only limited to 32GB in size. The problem is that we keep our data for at least 10 years and after awhile it will get filled requiring us to create a new catalog every few months. Is there anyone else hitting this limitation as well?

Another problem we found with the catalog is that it is extremely fragile. Any shutdown of the server while a backup is running will corrupt the catalog requiring some cli commands to restore it.

I may eval BakBone instead to see how they do. Any thoughts?

Thx,
Pat

Posted on Dec 3, 2007 9:26 PM

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G@ndalf

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Jan 19, 2008 7:29 AM in response to pmonroe40

There is a Time Navigator user forum you might want to visit.

http://tinaforum.com

I am sure you can get some answers there.

G@ndalf

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Yoshi_-

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Jan 30, 2008 3:19 AM in response to pmonroe40

We're using TimeNavigator in many environments. The 32GB catalog limit is'nt a limit if you don't have billions of files.

The catalog has its own format and all entries are organized in catalog objects and instances.
An object contains all information to a file or directory (client, path, name, unix-attributes and - if configured - acl entries, backup infos).
An instance is related to an object and contains only "changed" infos.

At one site we have 17,670,484 objects and 71,525,264 instances. The catalog at this site has a size of 23GB.

If macs are not the only available server, you should give it a try.

Jochen

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