Hello Bob,
I have extension experience with it since I've been running it
a few years and am an AppAssure partner. Support has improved in the past year.
6+ months ago, support was pretty bad. I know most of the guys at AppAssure,
and it's an impressive solution if you're running SQL & Exchange. BUT, your
backup server needs to be really fast and have a lot of ram. Replay is pretty
stable once it's working. There have been some version problems (4.5 was bad,
but later 4.6 is good), but once you find a good version, you stick with it. I
love the ability to restore directly to vmdk or vhd's (right-click and say
restore to VM is pretty cool). I have clients replicate to company's equipment
& it makes testing DR very easy. It's heavy on the WAN links, but 5.0 which is
in internal beta, is dedup across all systems in storage vs dedup per server.
Replay is a lot cheaper than DoubleTake and is far better for long term
retention, BUT DoubleTake is better for failover functionality. Replay is good
when you have mixed P/V servers. Some features don't work well such as "live
restore" (restoring while the system is in use). But, for access to any backup
point in time is very fast. We use a # of backup solutions, but like Replay due
to easy of configuration and capabilities for DR.
-Ben
From: Bob Hartung [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 2:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Backup Software
Anyone have experience with AppAssure?
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Bob Hartung
Dir of I.T.
Wisco Industries, Inc.
736 Janesville St.
Oregon, WI 53575
Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215
Fax: (608) 835-7399
e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com
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From: Bob Hartung [mailto:[email protected]]
To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:09:33 -0600
Subject: Backup Software
I've been researching backup software and I'd like to go with a disk-to-disk
solution with offsite replication for disaster recovery. We currently are doing
disk-to-disk-to-tape and it's taking too long. Plus I'm tired of people telling
me they forgot to put the next tape in.
I'd appreciate any real-world recommendations on what's good or warnings on
what's not so good.
Thanks.
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Bob Hartung
Dir of I.T.
Wisco Industries, Inc.
736 Janesville St.
Oregon, WI 53575
Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215
Fax: (608) 835-7399
e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com
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