I recently deployed Druva inSync which has the capability to do both full image backups, as well as file backups. One of the main selling points is it can work either over local LAN or the Internet, so it's good for people who travel a lot. I am running the server on Linux with the clients as Windows. They recently released version 4.0 which I have not yet upgraded to.
I did a lot of testing on it and the full image backup works well. There is a separate Linux boot disk you can use to restore the image from either a local USB drive or over the network. I ran a full PC through this process and didn't see any issues with the restored image. However, we are not using the full image backup right now as it was taking too long to create the full backup. Our server is an old desktop PC, which could explain that problem. Also, the PC we were trying to backup had a lot of media files, which should have been excluded but I'm not clear if they actually were. I just ran out of time to look into it. It's really worth a closer look, as generally I've been very happy with the software. On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > What are you folks using for full system backups? The goals are to backup > everyone's whole laptop, regularly (at least once a day) in the background > while their system is running. Must be able to specify optional excludes, > such as their music or videos directory etc. > > We were using Acronis True Image up till 2010. It has always been buggy, > but now that 2011 is out, it's downright unstable and unusable. Their > support is an abomination. > > Yesterday, I built 3 fresh new machines, created the "golden image" for each > one. Then I tested a restore... Zeroed the hard drives, and restored the > backups. The results were: > > One system unbootable. Bluescreen. > > One system boots up, but totally wonky. Random error messages, some of the > control panel items disappeared, etc. > > One system appears normal. But I'm skeptical because of the other two. > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
