Commerical Backup Solutions

Fri May 18 00:01:20 UTC 2012

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:
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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
>> 408-621-4826
>> mike.lyon at gmail.com
>>
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon
>>