Commerical Backup Solutions

Thu May 17 22:59:02 UTC 2012

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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> 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
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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
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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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