Commerical Backup Solutions

Thu May 17 23:08:21 UTC 2012

We use Barracuda Yosemite backup with about 10 locations all over the
world, using disk to disk (single disks via esata and to SANs) and disk to
tape (both libraries and single drives). Very rarely do we have issues.
Barracuda support isn't as good as Yosemite's (Barracuda bought them) but
still not bad. Also, the site wide license is a steal! Get a demo, it might
fit the bill.

--Thomas York
On May 17, 2012 6:59 PM, "Mike Lyon" <mike.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:

> We used Acronis and it was a nightmare as was their off-shored support
> model. Never again... Wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole.
>
> Switched to Iron Mountain LiveVault which backs everything up over the
> wire. It has basic reporting functions but not extremely granular.
> http://ironmountain.com/services/democenter/livevault/player.html
>
> Barracuda also seems to have a nice product. Though, i've never used it:
> http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/products/backup_overview.php
>
> -Mike
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Paul Stewart <paul at paulstewart.org>
> wrote:
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> > Hey folks.
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> > I'm hoping for some input from operational folks on backup solutions for
> > servers.  We are looking for a commercial backup solution with a nice
> > reporting dashboard etc.
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> > It must support full/incremental backups on Windows and various flavors
> of
> > Linux.  We would also be looking for bare metal image/recovery abilities.
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> > To date, we've been fond of Acronis until we got the quote for it ..
> > Initially we would be looking at 50-80 servers and growing it up from
> there
> > to probably 150-200 boxes.  Some of these servers are geographically
> > dispersed.
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> > At the moment we have been using Bacula but it lacks bare metal options
> and
> > doesn't have any nice reporting options (Executive Dashboard etc)
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> > Thanks for any input,
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> > Paul
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> --
> Mike Lyon
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> mike.lyon at gmail.com
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