[olug] Cost effective enterprise backup

[Christopher R. White]

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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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