We are looking at upgrading some of our server and storage infrastructure in the coming months, and two of the major backup and archival options available to us are Tivoli and CommVault. From what I’ve seen of them, Tivoli is a complex, infinitely configurable system that is very much “set and forget”. CommVault seems more user-friendly and tries to look like backup software but actually does a lot more than just that.
Does anyone have any real-world experience with either of these products? The main reason we’re looking at higher-end backup/archival systems like these is to make better use of storage moving forward, with automatic archival of old data to tape, reduced backup windows through more efficient use of tapes and backup-to-disk-then-to-tape, etc, which both these products apparently pride themselves on.