[itdiscuss] Backup Software Revisited

[Dan Barber]

Jason,
I have been looking for something like this. Which edition do you use? How long did the first sync take? I think we currently have about 300GB of data. However, at that price, I might increase the amount being backed up...

Also, with Bill's question: what do you do with Exchange and SQL? Are you only doing database-level restores? If so, would you just mount that as a new database if you needed to restore a single mailbox or mailbox folder?

Dan

From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Jason Hand
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:22 AM
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You really ought to look at the Amazon S3 with Jungle Disk as an option for offsite.  It is very inexpensive.  It does bit level changes and I have it running for a school that has about 150gb of data stored on the S3 account and uploading changed and new data nightly for about $35/month.

You can look at all of the costs involved and estimate how much your monthly cost would be on the Jungle disk site:  http://www.jungledisk.com

-Jason

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From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Dan Barber
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:39 PM
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We have just added space (or are least in process) for disk-to-disk backups (though probably only for incremental during the week). We will still probably use Tape and transport it offsite, simply because the online storage/gb is not cost-effective yet.

Dan

From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Tony Dye
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:28 AM
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Dan, are you planning (wanting?) to stay with tape backup, or would you consider a remote backup solution?  (or a mixed on-site/off-site disk-to-disk, or whatever)


From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of blloyd at buskercom.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:24 PM
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I currently us Retrospect from EMC and it works well.  It is especially good at restoring data.

I'm looking at something called StoreGrid, http://www.vembu.com/index.php, because it promises to backup data at the bit level and with its replication server software it gives you the ability to replicate the backup to an off-site location.  It also appears to take a less-resource intensive backup of Exchange mailboxes.





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From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Dan Barber
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:02 PM
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I am again revisiting the question of backup software. I have been using most recently Commvault Galaxy Express, and am finding it significantly difficult to use. I am looking for something easy to use, reliable, will be doing disk-to-disk daily and tape on weekends. I also want something with decent notification abilities; I don't want to have a lot of false alarms.

What do you use and how has it been for you?

Dan Barber
Kirk of the Hills

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