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
