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RE: Commerical Backup Solutions
From: Jamie Bowden <jamie () photon com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 12:08:59 +0000
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. -- Jamie Bowden (jamie () photon com) Sr. Sys. Admin. (703) 243-6613 x3848 Photon Research Associates, Inc. 1616 Fort Myer Drive, Suite 1000 Arlington, VA 22209
-----Original Message----- From: Josh Baird [mailto:joshbaird () gmail com] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 8:02 PM To: Thomas York Cc: nanog () 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 () 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) anddisk totape (both libraries and single drives). Very rarely do we haveissues.Barracuda support isn't as good as Yosemite's (Barracuda bought them)butstill not bad. Also, the site wide license is a steal! Get a demo, itmightfit the bill. --Thomas York On May 17, 2012 6:59 PM, "Mike Lyon" <mike.lyon () gmail com> wrote:We used Acronis and it was a nightmare as was their off-shoredsupportmodel. Never again... Wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. Switched to Iron Mountain LiveVault which backs everything up overthewire. 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 usedit: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. I'm hoping for some input from operational folks on backupsolutions forservers. We are looking for a commercial backup solution with anicereporting dashboard etc. It must support full/incremental backups on Windows and variousflavorsofLinux. We would also be looking for bare metal image/recoveryabilities.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 upfromthereto probably 150-200 boxes. Some of these servers aregeographicallydispersed. At the moment we have been using Bacula but it lacks bare metaloptionsanddoesn't have any nice reporting options (Executive Dashboard etc) Thanks for any input, Paul-- Mike Lyon 408-621-4826 mike.lyon () gmail com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon
Current thread:
- Commerical Backup Solutions Paul Stewart (May 17)
- Re: Commerical Backup Solutions Mike Lyon (May 17)
- Re: Commerical Backup Solutions Darrell Hyde (May 17)
- Re: Commerical Backup Solutions Gary Buckmaster (May 17)
- Re: Commerical Backup Solutions Thomas York (May 17)
- Re: Commerical Backup Solutions Josh Baird (May 17)
- RE: Commerical Backup Solutions Blake Pfankuch (May 17)
- RE: Commerical Backup Solutions Scott Berkman (May 18)
- RE: Commerical Backup Solutions Jamie Bowden (May 18)
- Re: Commerical Backup Solutions Mike Lyon (May 17)
- Re: Commerical Backup Solutions Steve Bertrand (May 20)
- Re: Commerical Backup Solutions Mike Lyon (May 20)