[152819] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Commerical Backup Solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darrell Hyde)
Thu May 17 19:05:06 2012
From: Darrell Hyde <DHyde@hosting.com>
To: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 19:04:29 -0400
In-Reply-To: <CAFFgAjA-P5d=CSBCGfbnfneKc1ga_je=9W7iZzSNRXt0u1m9uQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Recently finished developing a product around Commvault Simpana. Fairly hap=
py with their API and reporting capabilities. Application specific plugins =
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On May 17, 2012, at 4:59 PM, "Mike Lyon" <mike.lyon@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@paulstewart.org> wrot=
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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 =
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>> 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 th=
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>> 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 =
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>> 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@gmail.com
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> http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon
