backups are performed effectively, they rarely fail, restoration is quick, navigation screens are simple, and you can review what has been backed up, the capacity I use, see the ID, and when it's time to restore, you can easily search for the date, ID, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

when it gets misconfigured, it's very complicated to reconfigure the backups, when it comes to Databases, at the file level it's easy. When it stops backing up the exchange databases, it gets complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Networker Simplified my backup solution with the ease of deploying the clients to different servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The java based front end was a bit clunky and difficult to use sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface is fairly straight forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Job Failures, java based application and long backup jobs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How it ties to DataDomain and can talk to my VMWare environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How expensive it is and how it has fallen back compared to the other guys who are tackling VMWare backups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Networker has so many features that allow me to backup in a very detailed manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Troubleshooting could take a while, due to all the options available. However, this is a good thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it's compatible with several different databases. It's reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's an older technology . There are cheaper products that work just as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Good scalability. Is possible automating many operations as client configuration. Is possible changing many parameters for tuning performances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Centralized deploy of NetWorker agent is not very reliable. Error messages related to networking problems are often misleading Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scheduling of backups. java interface. Very complete reporting of backups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Backup of Microsoft Exchange and Vmware VMs is complex to setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would say I like the reliability of the product. I have been using it in my past positions almost 20 years. Nothing feels worse when a restore needs to be done and for whatever reason, you are not able to get the file(s) back. That is not to say other products are unreliable, but Networker definitely fits into my comfort zone. Over the years, I have used Windows, True64, and Solaris as backup hosts. When I started at my present job, we had Backup Exec everywhere with multiple backup hosts everywhere to keep track of. It was nice to consolidate all of them on a single target host. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The restore progress window in version 7.6 goes blank so you can't see what is going on. I am building a new server with version 8.2 so we will see if that is better and possibly if this is caused by a server bottleneck. Also, I must admit I have never looked to see if there is a solution to this, so it really just has been a minor nuisance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The large scope of supported client operating systems is a strong positive. Longevity of the product means there's a large base of experienced users with multiple community support forums. EMC continues to invest in development, so it's not a "dead" product. Product offers multiple backup targets and data migration options, e.g. disk-to-tape, disk-to-disk, disk-to-disk-to-tape, etc. Nearly every aspect is configurable making the product highly adaptive to complex environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We've proven that this product persistently misses some files, but not always the same files, causing our Oracle DB recoveries to fail. Working with EMC support for months to years never resulted in a solution. Oracle DBA's refuse to rely on Networker backups. For file server backups it was fine, but continued failures to backup critical files and not report on missed files caused us to move away from the product. It's origin is command line driven with vague GUI tools offering partial functionality. Longevity of the product means persistent backwards compatibility with means code bloating to support features and abilities no longer present in modern operating systems. Attempts to modernize the interface hasn't helped in the vast complexity in setup and use of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.