I dont think the livevault solution offers for bare metal backups. Tthey may if you have their appliance but not sure.
-mike Sent from my iPhone On May 20, 2012, at 14:04, Steve Bertrand <steve.bertr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2012-05-17 16:59, Mike Lyon 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 > > Does Iron Mountain LiveVault allow for bare metal restorations? I didn't see > it after gleaning the site. > > In my new job, we're using BackupExec pulling the data from ~100 servers to a > SAN and then to tape. Iron Mountain comes in every day to to replace our > tapes for offsite storage. > > For the few boxes we have that aren't configured in HA pairs or clusters, we > periodically do a snapshot with Acronis specifically for the bare metal > restoration ability. > > Steve
