[olug] Co-lo in SE Nebraska

[Sheldon, Roger W]

I have only worked with Backup Exec, BrightStor and Symantec for backups. Heard good things about Comm Vault, not sure how it compares to Netbackup. Sure would like to have both running in our environment. There was talk about having another backup app so that we aren't tied to one company. Prob just to make the other company stay reasonable in pricing. Way to many projects goin on so I think this idea is being left in the dirt... lol. Would be nice to work with something other than Symantec tho. 

R.S





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From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Craig Wolf
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 7:11 AM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Co-lo in SE Nebraska

Consider CommVault if you need backup software.  We looked at Avamar and liked CommVault better.

You are right about the DataDomain's, they do not scale at all.  Was glad to be rid of them when I left the last job.  I was using inexpensive NexSAN devices under that for storage and it was working REALLY well!

Never worked with Falconstore...will have to look into that.  8)

Craig Wolf


On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Sheldon, Roger W <Roger.Sheldon at firstdata.com> wrote:
> We write to Data Domain and hold onto the images for 2 weeks and then duplicated nightly and off sited to Iron Mountain. The Data Domains btw do not scale well at all. We are looking at using  Falconstore instead as they appear to be more enterprise level and have a good implementation of OST & VTL. Both De-dup but once again I think Falconstor seemed to be better. We are using Symantec Netbackup which  has its quirks. I have heard of Avamar but have not worked with it before.
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> In my DR plan offsite backup is for situations like the building blew up or got hit with a tornado.  I typically back up to a FreeNAS box locally.
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> At work I use CoSentry's EMC Avamar for backups.  It is nice because it does de-duplication and granular restore from Exchange mail boxes.
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> For my side jobs I have a Dell 2950 with Syncrify at Joe's Datacenter that costs me $50 a month.  The 2950 came with a DRAC.  If you ship them the server you never actually have to go to KC.  They will do simple hands on stuff for free like reboot add RAM, HDD etc and they will let you borrow a KVM over IP if needed.
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