Joe, I may take you up on that if you don't mind. I'm not directly involved with the project, so I'm getting additional details from my colleague.
>From what I know, it appears the project was doomed from the initial analysis of our environment. We're replacing our backup to tape environment (Backup Exec) with the Asigra product. The storage at each site is comprised of IBM NS3200 A20 NAS appliances. Long story short (relatively), two analysis' have been performed to determine how much storage we need to accomadate 1 day retention of backups on 'online' storage (using high-speed fiber channel drives) and then archiving everything to BLM (using large capacity sata drives). My colleague seems to have to babysit the system every single day because the online storage keeps running out of space, or the backup sets have to be re-configured more granularly due to very large file repositories being backed. We recently added an additional 6TB of BLM storage and it appears now that's not even enough. With the Asigra's licensing structure, its very expensive to add additional storage. Bottom line, we're starting to question whether this investment is still financially sound. What are you experiences with the product? Do you constantly have to manage the application to ensure successful backups? Again, I only know the high-level details of the environment. I can bring my colleague in on the conversation if additional details would help. - Sean On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Joe Heaton <[email protected]> wrote: > Sean, > > > > We’re using the Asigra Televaulting software here. I’d be happy to discuss > with you. Just let me know if you want to discuss here or offline. > > > > Joe Heaton > > Employment Training Panel > > > > *From:* Sean Martin [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Friday, May 15, 2009 9:05 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Asigra Backup Software > > > > Has anyone ever used this software that would be willing to share their > experiences? Good or bad? Based on our experience, I'm going to assume bad, > but that may be mostly due to the 3rd party consultant firm that recommended > and designed the solution. > > > > - Sean > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
