Re: Commerical Backup Solutions

[Gary Buckmaster <gary.buckmaster () digitalpacific com au>]

We were considering Acronis for backing up our internal infrastructure,
we use R1Soft for our customers.

What were the issues with Acronis?  I'd be interested in getting some
real-world feedback.  You can hit me off list if you like.

-Gary

On 5/18/2012 8:59 AM, Mike Lyon 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 () paulstewart org> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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