[152829] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Commerical Backup Solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Bowden)
Fri May 18 08:12:08 2012
From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@photon.com>
To: Josh Baird <joshbaird@gmail.com>, Thomas York <straterra@fuhell.com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 12:08:59 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CABmW_PdpXTxvfL9VkqO9OrC867F53pKwLM8CXmo+ZowZpQj_LA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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 I=
rix 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 Net=
Backup functionality is still stable and reliable (and BackupExec has been =
brought into parity in many ways with NetBackup over the years, but still l=
acks some features and functions its bigger brother handles). The master s=
erver role can be anywhere in your topology and the media server role is se=
parated 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 ex=
pensive, though I wouldn't wish Legato on anyone.
--=20
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
>=20
> 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).
>=20
> Josh
>=20
> 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) 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@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@paulstewart.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hey folks.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I'm hoping for some input from operational folks on backup
> solutions for
> >> > servers. =A0We 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. =A0We would also be looking for bare metal image/recovery
> abilities.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > 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. =A0Some of these servers are
> geographically
> >> > dispersed.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > 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)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for any input,
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Paul
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mike Lyon
> >> 408-621-4826
> >> mike.lyon@gmail.com
> >>
> >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon
> >>
