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>The current release, 2.0 is a piece of junk.  I've stopped tracking
>bugs, and buglets, I'm not going to waste the time it would take to 
>SPR them all, only to have them not get fixed.
>I sincerely doubt that OSF has anything to do with NSR, it's just a 
>repackaged Legato Networker...  I could be wrong about the OSF part though.

	I ran NSR for about a year and a half and it did a pretty good
job. I have to admit that when I got a chance to play with Legato's
stuff at a trade show, I wondered why Digital licensed it, then hacked
it up so much. Too much "added value" for my taste, especially when
Legato already had a working X interface and stacker support while
NSR didn't.

	On the plus side, I found it pretty reliable and never had
much in the way of trouble with it. I spent one frustrating night
(and I mean all night) because the indices got too big and filled
the disk and there was no room for the temporary storage required
to pack down the indices. OOps. I had to do tars and compresses
and NFS kludgery until I was blue in the face.

	It ran reliably for a year and a half, and as far as I am
concerned, it paid for itself in my time-savings. Certainly it
made my co-workers happy because without it backups never got
done at all. If I were looking for a backup solution today, I'd
first off take a look at U of Maryland's "Amanda" system and see
if I could make that work (the price is right) and if not, I'd
look at Legato's networker or Backup.Unet from that bunch with
the UNIX wars posters. No offense to DEC, but since Legato and
so on make their entire livings based on that product set, I
think they're more likely to turn around bugs and keep the
product up with the joneses.

mjr.
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