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I am looking for some other suggestions of software to look at for our backup / disaster recovery option.

We are running mostly Windows Server 2003 with a few Ubuntu Linux servers, not looking for workstation backup as all important data is on the network share. We are currently using the standard windows backups here and as much as they are “working” I want something, quicker, smaller and more reliable as an option. We have the storage already here for our backups just looking for a software option to complete these tasks, with a decent speed and decent file sizes on the back up files.

I am currently testing Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 an d so far I like it, only had a few snags which are permission issues that are easy to fix. anyone else have any other suggestions for me too check out?

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Symantec Backup Exec is what we’re currently using, although I know there are better options out there

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Try Veeam Backup & Replication. You can download a free trial as well.

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We use CA ArcServe for server backups. I like arcserve over backup exec.

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Bacula is great, and free.

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Max K. wrote:

Try Veeam Backup & Replication. You can download a free trial as well.

I don’t know if this matters, but we are not running any VMware in our current environment.

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Max K. wrote:

Try Veeam Backup & Replication. You can download a free trial as well.

I thought Veeam was only for virtual environments.

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have you looked at the Unitrends appliance?

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Scott696d wrote:

Symantec Backup Exec is what we’re currently using, although I know there are better options out there

that’s an understatement.

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B-Rad2011 wrote:

have you looked at the Unitrends appliance?

Yes I did, although we don’t need the equipment, we have a data storage device here already with 6 TB of space available for me to use, from what I was reading Unitrends is more of a hardware solution backup, am I right?

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What are the IOPS on that data storage device?

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Jenn wrote:

B-Rad2011 wrote:

have you looked at the Unitrends appliance?

Yes I did, although we don’t need the equipment, we have a data storage device here already with 6 TB of space available for me to use, from what I was reading Unitrends is more of a hardware solution backup, am I right?

they are put depending on the amount of data you have to back up you can go with a smaller appliance and have it off load to your SAN or what ever your 6TB is.

Alternatively they have a virtual appliance that could make dirrect use of the 6TB

I can hook you up with my sales rep if you want more info or pm me

Katie from Unitrends is also in the community

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Mikey 412 wrote:

What are the IOPS on that data storage device?

Data transfer rate is about 50-50 MBps on that network data server. I am not sure if that’s what you were asking or not.

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B-Rad2011 wrote:

Thank you, does Unitrends also provide a software solution for backing up and restoring the data?

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We’ve been very happy with ShadowProtect. It’s a D2D solution, and the backups can be mounted as VMs or as drive letters to retrieve a file or two.

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Do yourself a favor and check out Appassure REPLAY.

It’s for both VM and Physical, is agentless, low overhead and it’s compression and de-duplication are awesome.

So easy to use, and it’s as easy to bare metal restore an entire server as it is to restore 1 file.

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Denis Kelley wrote:

True, must have missed that part. :slight_smile:

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I will second the recommendation of ShadowProtect. It is great product for backing up Windows servers and desktops, but it doesn’t do linux.

I recently did test restore of two of our production servers to bare metal desktop machine. It took about 4 hours including installing ESX first. I can restore desktop machine in about 25mins. It also does continuous incremental backups with as little as 15 min intervals so you hardly loose any data and you can restore individual files or whole machines from any point in time. You can even boot the backup files as a VM on your desktop and much more. I spent lot of time trying to get Veeam and other ESX host level backups working well and found ShadowProtect running in the windows machine to be much simpler and better solution.

I am just glad to be rid of Backup Exec and LTO tapes!

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You haven’t mentioned the size of the data you want to backup.

But whatever the size of your data, Vembu StoreGrid offers a very reliable, secured and cost effective solution.

StoreGrid addresses data protection and disaster recovery requirements across both physical and virtual environments.Backs up various applications like Exchange, MS SQL, SharePoint Servers, Oracle, MySQL to name a few…

For more details, check out our detailed feature list or feel free to get back to us for any info regarding StoreGrid

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Scott696d wrote:

Symantec Backup Exec is what we’re currently using, although I know there are better options out there

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