[olug] OT: Offsite Backup

[Kevin]

Have you checked Wikipedia[1]? They've got a table of several vendors along
with several features and what vendor supports what feature? My
process(when I get around to actually doing it) will be to copy the table
to Excel or whatever spreadsheet you prefer, then take out the periodic
column/row heads. Then I'll identify a feature I want, such as Linux
support, then delete all the vendors that don't have that feature.
Eventually you'll be left with a much smaller list, but from there you can
visit each vendor's website and get prices there.

Alternatively, every Friday, Reddit's sysadmin subreddit[2] has an "Am I
Getting Fucked Friday" thread where you can create a throwaway account,
post what you have(in your case, "several Citrix Xenserver hosts with
Windows(Exchange, SharePoint, MSSQL) and......") and what you're looking to
do(backup), and maybe your solution(Avamar provided by the datacenter) and
other redditors will post what they're paying for similar things.


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_backup_services
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote:

> I am looking for suggestions for offsite backup providers or a software
> solution that I could colo.
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> We currently use CoSentry's EMC Avamar solution.
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> The price they are charging us per GB is increasing.  I feel that the cost
> per GB should be reducing at a rate greater than that of inflation.
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> My environment consists of several Citrix Xenserver hosts with Windows
> (Exchange, SharePoint, MSSQL) and Linux guests, one VMware vSphere ESXi
> machine with a SCO Unix guest, and a few important Windows 7 desktops
> running analytical chemistry software.
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> In addition to the offsite backups I am backing up to FreeNAS locally.
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> I would like a solution that has granular recovery for Exchange mailboxes
> and SharePoint lists and file level recovery for SCO Unix running on
> VMware.
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> Any suggestions, recommendations and or rude comments would be appreciated.
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