[olug] Cost effective enterprise backup

Christopher R. White slaeyer at gmail.com
Tue Jan 29 13:36:14 UTC 2013


I think personally they are interchangeable, but my boss found the legal
moniker himself, years ago, so we stick with that, lol.  We know all to
well that just because its free, does not make it legal to use.  I think
the legal part helps greatly to alleviate feats.
On Jan 29, 2013 2:03 AM, "Kevin" <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought it was Free/Libre Open Source Software. Either one, it means the
> same thing.
> On Jan 28, 2013 10:04 PM, "Christopher R. White" <slaeyer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Free & Legal Open Source Software
> > On Jan 28, 2013 10:02 PM, "Justin Reiners" <justin at hotlinesinc.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Jeff, Yosemite looks to offer VMWare hot backup, and for 1700 unlimited
> > > hosts, very nice.
> > >
> > > Christopher - What is floss??
> > >
> > > Commvault looks very interesting as well. I have been searching here
> and
> > > there the last week, Veeam looked promising, except for the $800/CPU
> > price
> > > for VM backup. Acronis is right around $600/CPU. I hate. did I mention
> > > hate. bacula, not sure why. just do.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Christopher R. White <
> slaeyer at gmail.com
> > > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > Did I mention BackupPC is FLOSS??
> > > > On Jan 28, 2013 9:16 PM, "Christopher R. White" <slaeyer at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > BackupPC is fairly straightforward.  It backs up all our Windows &
> > *nix
> > > > > boxen.  It has options for bare metal and VM plus incremental
> > backups.
> > > >  We
> > > > > have it attached to an iSCSI device for speedy syncs and it rsyncs
> to
> > > an
> > > > > off site Nas for backups of the backups.
> > > > > On Jan 28, 2013 9:07 PM, "Justin Reiners" <justin at hotlinesinc.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Currently we are using avamar at cosentry to do backups. If you
> want
> > > to
> > > > >> call it that, we want to fond something a little more user
> friendly
> > > and
> > > > >> cost effective. I have been looking at acronis vmprotect for our
> > > VMware
> > > > >> architecture (6 hosts) 50 some VMs. 40 some Linux servers, 5
> windows
> > > > >> servers. What is everyone out the in the corporate world using?
> > >  Avamar
> > > > >> has
> > > > >> issues of restoring to the same machine and 1gb during work hours.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I plan on backing up to disk. And taking backup copies off site. I
> > > would
> > > > >> love bare metal for physical machines, something avamar does not
> > have.
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