I had experience cleaning up a StorageCraft mess. Red flags everywhere on failed backups, out of sync offsite, having to re-seed the off site targets. A complete pain in the butt, but the ease of set up and clean recovery of data when a backup set was working was nice. I'd never heard of, or used StorageCraft before that. I'm looking at it now as a possible solution for a small business backup tool as part of a DR plan.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < [email protected]> wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Harvey Rothenberg > > > > I am torn between using a backup solution for a very small business > > network. Either go with a solution that also covers Linux or Not and > this same > > publisher has more support staff or go with the newer company on the > block > > and that is limited to only Microsoft. > > There is no big advantage to using the same software on multiple > platforms. You should use whatever solution is best for each platform - > For example - Time Machine only exists in mac. So should you eliminate TM > just because it's not available on other platforms? No. Go right ahead > and use TM, and find a separate solution for each other platform that you > care about. > > I use and deploy Acronis TrueImage for windows. It's not great, but it's > the best I've found so far. It's important to run automatically, in the > background, with low priority that users don't complain about, backup over > network, able to disable for VPN, exclude stuff user doesn't care about, > operate quickly for daily incrementals, restore individual files without > admin interaction, restore whole system with admin. It does all of these > things. (So does TM). The problems are: With a large variety of pc's to > support, sometimes for no apparent reason, some pc simply can't run > Acronis. A backup job starts and never does anything. No problem on other > pc's, and no explanation for why the problem. When something goes wrong, > there is no notification. I have to schedule a reminder for myself > monthly, to login to server and look at everyone's backups, and typically 1 > person out of 30 each month needs me to completely delete their backup (and > backup job) and start it all fresh. There is no great way to run the job > every day, at different times of day, whenever the user is in the network. > And if you set a whole bunch of people to go at the same time, then they > absolutely overwhelm the server. (Spoiler alert, everybody wants their job > scheduled at Noon.) > > Ideally, I'd like the precise functionality of Time Machine available in > windows. Better yet, zfs. But realistically, something just like TM. > > I've never tried StorageCraft. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- If rights are denied to some, they are guaranteed to none. - unknown Lance
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