Backup software; Legato vs. Veritas?

[Jurgen Botz <jurgen@botz.org>]

Hello Sages,

This should be a topic on which people have an opinion... which is
better, Legato Networker or Veritas NetBackup?  Or is there another
package of the same scope which is better still?

I need an enterprise backup solution and I've used mostly Legato in
the past, but I am not entirely happy with Legato.  Aside from my
personal dislikes Legato doesn't have two features which I would 
like and which Veritas offers; 1) is encryption, 2) is NDMP backup
of NetApps.

The latter is kind of a show-stopper for me... Legato "solved" it by
buying Intelliguard (Budtool), but running two incompatible backup
systems is a pain at best.  Legato promises to incorporate the NDMP
functionality into their main product, but there is apparently no
fixed timeline for this.

As for encryption... I have long been puzzled that most backup
software does not have this feature.  It seems a major weak link in
any data security scheme to have unencrypted backups.  Yeah, you 
can put your tapes in a vault, and should, but since you're likely
to have so many of them and ship some off-site, etc., they seem
much harder to keep secure than the disks the data came off of.

Anyway, because of these two features I am considering Veritas
NetBackup, which has them.  However Veritas is even more expensive 
than Legato.

So what do you think?  How do these products compare in general?

- Jürgen