Commerical Backup Solutions

Fri May 18 12:08:59 UTC 2012

BackupExec was a Seagate product Symantec bought prior to their purchase of Veritas.  I've been using NetBackup for over a decade now (originally in Irix and Solaris heavy environments, but these days on Windows and Linux for the most part). Symantec are a pain the ass to deal with, but the core NetBackup functionality is still stable and reliable (and BackupExec has been brought into parity in many ways with NetBackup over the years, but still lacks some features and functions its bigger brother handles).  The master server role can be anywhere in your topology and the media server role is separated out and can exist across multiple hosts and locations.  Management can be done from any approved host running the management console software.  Tivoli and Legato are pretty similar feature, functionality, and being expensive, though I wouldn't wish Legato on anyone.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Baird [mailto:joshbaird at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 8:02 PM
> To: Thomas York
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Commerical Backup Solutions
> 
> We have used Symantec's BackupExec (Veritas) in several locations but
> have standardized on IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).  Not a fan of
> IBM, but it works, and it works well.  Be prepared to drop some
> serious coin, though.  We currently use it to do tape backups for over
> 800+ servers (Linux, AIX, Windows).
> 
> Josh
> 
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Thomas York <straterra at fuhell.com>
> wrote:
> > 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:
> >>
> >> > Hey folks.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > 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.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > It must support full/incremental backups on Windows and various
> flavors
> >> of
> >> > Linux.  We would also be looking for bare metal image/recovery
> abilities.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > 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.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > 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)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for any input,
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Paul
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mike Lyon
> >> 408-621-4826
> >> mike.lyon at gmail.com
> >>
> >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon
> >>