Re: Commerical Backup Solutions

2012-05-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
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

Re: Commerical Backup Solutions

2012-05-20 Thread Mike Lyon
I dont think the livevault solution offers for bare metal backups. Tthey may if you have their appliance but not sure. -mike Sent from my iPhone On May 20, 2012, at 14:04, Steve Bertrand steve.bertr...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-05-17 16:59, Mike Lyon wrote: We used Acronis and it was a

RE: Commerical Backup Solutions

2012-05-18 Thread Jamie Bowden
Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Commerical Backup Solutions We have used Symantec's BackupExec (Veritas) in several locations but have standardized on IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). Not a fan of IBM, but it works, and it works well. Be prepared to drop some serious coin, though. We

RE: Commerical Backup Solutions

2012-05-18 Thread Scott Berkman
: Thursday, May 17, 2012 6:53 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Commerical Backup Solutions Hey folks. I'm hoping for some input from operational folks on backup solutions for servers. We are looking for a commercial backup solution with a nice reporting dashboard etc. It must support full

RE: Commerical Backup Solutions

2012-05-18 Thread Scott Berkman
; Thomas York Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Commerical Backup Solutions First, I work for a managed service provider. We support a large number of traditional and over the wire backup solutions. We have used Symantec Backup Exec, eVault, Acronis, Intronis, Asigra, Heroware (newer solution more

Commerical Backup Solutions

2012-05-17 Thread Paul Stewart
Hey folks. I'm hoping for some input from operational folks on backup solutions for servers. We are looking for a commercial backup solution with a nice reporting dashboard etc. It must support full/incremental backups on Windows and various flavors of Linux. We would also be looking for

Re: Commerical Backup Solutions

2012-05-17 Thread Mike Lyon
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.

Re: Commerical Backup Solutions

2012-05-17 Thread Darrell Hyde
Recently finished developing a product around Commvault Simpana. Fairly happy with their API and reporting capabilities. Application specific plugins (MySQL, mssql, exchange, etc) are pretty solid so far as well. On May 17, 2012, at 4:59 PM, Mike Lyon mike.l...@gmail.com wrote: We used

Re: Commerical Backup Solutions

2012-05-17 Thread Gary Buckmaster
We were considering Acronis for backing up our internal infrastructure, we use R1Soft for our customers. What were the issues with Acronis? I'd be interested in getting some real-world feedback. You can hit me off list if you like. -Gary On 5/18/2012 8:59 AM, Mike Lyon wrote: We used Acronis

Re: Commerical Backup Solutions

2012-05-17 Thread Thomas York
We use Barracuda Yosemite backup with about 10 locations all over the world, using disk to disk (single disks via esata and to SANs) and disk to tape (both libraries and single drives). Very rarely do we have issues. Barracuda support isn't as good as Yosemite's (Barracuda bought them) but still

Re: Commerical Backup Solutions

2012-05-17 Thread Josh Baird
We have used Symantec's BackupExec (Veritas) in several locations but have standardized on IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). Not a fan of IBM, but it works, and it works well. Be prepared to drop some serious coin, though. We currently use it to do tape backups for over 800+ servers (Linux,

RE: Commerical Backup Solutions

2012-05-17 Thread Blake Pfankuch
from each vendor. I favor Asigra because of personal preference and ease of use. --Blake -Original Message- From: Josh Baird [mailto:joshba...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 6:01 PM To: Thomas York Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Commerical Backup Solutions We have used