BackupExec was a Seagate product Symantec bought prior to their purchase of Veritas. I've been using NetBackup for over a decade now (originally in Irix and Solaris heavy environments, but these days on Windows and Linux for the most part). Symantec are a pain the ass to deal with, but the core NetBackup functionality is still stable and reliable (and BackupExec has been brought into parity in many ways with NetBackup over the years, but still lacks some features and functions its bigger brother handles). The master server role can be anywhere in your topology and the media server role is separated out and can exist across multiple hosts and locations. Management can be done from any approved host running the management console software. Tivoli and Legato are pretty similar feature, functionality, and being expensive, though I wouldn't wish Legato on anyone. -- Jamie Bowden (jamie@photon.com) Sr. Sys. Admin. (703) 243-6613 x3848 Photon Research Associates, Inc. 1616 Fort Myer Drive, Suite 1000 Arlington, VA 22209
-----Original Message----- From: Josh Baird [mailto:joshbaird@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 8:02 PM To: Thomas York 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 currently use it to do tape backups for over 800+ servers (Linux, AIX, Windows).
Josh
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 not bad. Also, the site wide license is a steal! Get a demo, it might fit the bill.
--Thomas York On May 17, 2012 6:59 PM, "Mike Lyon" <mike.lyon@gmail.com> 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
wire. It has basic reporting functions but not extremely granular. http://ironmountain.com/services/democenter/livevault/player.html
Barracuda also seems to have a nice product. Though, i've never used it: http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/products/backup_overview.php
-Mike
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Paul Stewart <paul@paulstewart.org> wrote:
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 bare metal image/recovery abilities.
To date, we've been fond of Acronis until we got the quote for it .. Initially we would be looking at 50-80 servers and growing it up from there to probably 150-200 boxes. Some of these servers are geographically dispersed.
At the moment we have been using Bacula but it lacks bare metal
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Thomas York <straterra@fuhell.com> wrote: the options
and
doesn't have any nice reporting options (Executive Dashboard etc)
Thanks for any input,
Paul
-- Mike Lyon 408-621-4826 mike.lyon@gmail.com