> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Harvey Rothenberg > > I am torn between using a backup solution for a very small business > network. Either go with a solution that also covers Linux or Not and this > same > publisher has more support staff or go with the newer company on the block > and that is limited to only Microsoft.
There is no big advantage to using the same software on multiple platforms. You should use whatever solution is best for each platform - For example - Time Machine only exists in mac. So should you eliminate TM just because it's not available on other platforms? No. Go right ahead and use TM, and find a separate solution for each other platform that you care about. I use and deploy Acronis TrueImage for windows. It's not great, but it's the best I've found so far. It's important to run automatically, in the background, with low priority that users don't complain about, backup over network, able to disable for VPN, exclude stuff user doesn't care about, operate quickly for daily incrementals, restore individual files without admin interaction, restore whole system with admin. It does all of these things. (So does TM). The problems are: With a large variety of pc's to support, sometimes for no apparent reason, some pc simply can't run Acronis. A backup job starts and never does anything. No problem on other pc's, and no explanation for why the problem. When something goes wrong, there is no notification. I have to schedule a reminder for myself monthly, to login to server and look at everyone's backups, and typically 1 person out of 30 each month needs me to completely delete their backup (and backup job) and start it all fresh. There is no great way to run the job every day, at different times of day, whenever the user is in the network. And if you set a whole bunch of people to go at the same time, then they absolutely overwhelm the server. (Spoiler alert, everybody wants their job scheduled at Noon.) Ideally, I'd like the precise functionality of Time Machine available in windows. Better yet, zfs. But realistically, something just like TM. I've never tried StorageCraft. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
