[152852] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Commerical Backup Solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lyon)
Sun May 20 17:21:00 2012
From: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FB95C69.7080709@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 14:20:26 -0700
To: Steve Bertrand <steve.bertrand@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I dont think the livevault solution offers for bare metal backups.
Tthey may if you have their appliance but not sure.
-mike
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On May 20, 2012, at 14:04, Steve Bertrand <steve.bertrand@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012-05-17 16:59, 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
>
> Does Iron Mountain LiveVault allow for bare metal restorations? I didn't see it after gleaning the site.
>
> In my new job, we're using BackupExec pulling the data from ~100 servers to a SAN and then to tape. Iron Mountain comes in every day to to replace our tapes for offsite storage.
>
> For the few boxes we have that aren't configured in HA pairs or clusters, we periodically do a snapshot with Acronis specifically for the bare metal restoration ability.
>
> Steve
