[152820] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Commerical Backup Solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Buckmaster)
Thu May 17 19:06:26 2012
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 09:05:47 +1000
From: Gary Buckmaster <gary.buckmaster@digitalpacific.com.au>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAFFgAjA-P5d=CSBCGfbnfneKc1ga_je=9W7iZzSNRXt0u1m9uQ@mail.gmail.com>
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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.
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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> 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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