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 On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Thomas York <strate...@fuhell.com> wrote: > 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.l...@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 the >> 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 <p...@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 options >> and >> > doesn't have any nice reporting options (Executive Dashboard etc) >> > >> > >> > >> > Thanks for any input, >> > >> > >> > >> > Paul >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> Mike Lyon >> 408-621-4826 >> mike.l...@gmail.com >> >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon >>