Commerical Backup Solutions

Thu May 17 23:04:29 UTC 2012

Recently finished developing a product around Commvault Simpana. Fairly happy with their API and reporting capabilities. Application specific plugins (MySQL, mssql, exchange, etc) are pretty solid so far as well. 

On May 17, 2012, at 4:59 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.
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> 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
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> Barracuda also seems to have a nice product. Though, i've never used it:
> http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/products/backup_overview.php
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> -Mike
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> 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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