"The only thing I wish they did was automated backup restoration for verification of restores., but there don't seem to be a ton of backup vendors that support that particular feature without writing some custom scripting yourself."
Veeam does this very well. It's a pretty thorough solution for virtual environments. They do have a free agent for physical servers but it doesn't provide deep application integration. - Sean > On Oct 27, 2015, at 10:14 AM, Nathan Shelby <[email protected]> wrote: > > Darren, > > I'm running a Unitrends appliance (an 2013/14 era 822 appliance) and have > been very happy with it. We use it for Hyper-V Clusters, and Windows File > Services Clusters as well as MSSQL and Sharepoint backups. We use their cloud > replication service and replicate ~2TB to them. The only issue we have is the > expansion pricing. That appliance allows us to backup 9TB and if we want to > expand we either need to archive off to tape/san/nas or buy another > appliance. They're very up front about the cost structure of expansion so if > you're willing to take that in to account it's a great system, we've never > had an issue with a recovery gone bad or anything. The UI is getting massive > revamp in upcoming v9 away from the flash interface currently in 8.2 (it also > doesn't scale in to 4K well if that's an issue for your management > workstations) to a standards compliant HTML 5 based interface. > > They support 'instant recovery' of both Hyper-V and ESX based virtual > machines (the appliance can host the vm image if needed to in a pinch) it's a > neat feature. As of 8.x they also support replication to common block storage > providers (Azure, AWS, Rackspace, etc) for archival. The only thing I wish > they did was automated backup restoration for verification of restores., but > there don't seem to be a ton of backup vendors that support that particular > feature without writing some custom scripting yourself. > > If you have any specific questions I'd be happy to answer them. > > > > > > > > Nathan Shelby > Director of Systems Engineering – Quote Wizard > [email protected] / 206-753-2626 > Malo Periculosam Libertatem Quam Quietum Servitium > > >> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Darren Martin <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Anyone using Unitrends for backup? If so have you had any issues? Getting >> away from BU Exec 2012 and would rather not upgrade to the latest BU exec >> version. Not happy with Symantec right now. Anyone using BU exec 2014+ >> successfully? >> >> >> >> Thanks for any info… >> >> >> >> D >> >> >> >
