Enterprise Backup

[Michael H. Semcheski]

I'd look at CommVault if you really want to go Enterprise level.

Its not cheap, but it does everything listed below, and lots more.
I've been using it for almost three years, and I'm pleased with it.

We backup 40 workstations per night to two 750GB SATA drives, and then
things get offloaded to an LTO2 library that holds 28 tapes.  For 40
workstation and servers, I end up having to shuffle tapes once a week
at most.

Mike

On 7/20/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any advice on commercial or open source enterprise
> >> level backup software. It would need the following:
> >>
> >> 1. Open file support
> >> 2. Backup to disk
> >> 3. Tape rotation
> >> 4. 'snapshotting' would be nice but not essential
> >> 5. A decent remote GUI (preferably web based)
> >
> > bacula is excellent at this.  We use it.  We've also used Amanda and
> > it (she?) works pretty well.  A bit clunkier to interface to, but works.
> > I use Amanda at home on a 4-tape DLT library.
>
> Bacula is probably a more complete system, but also look at backuppc if
>    you mainly want online backups because its compression and pooling
> scheme will let you hold about 10x what you'd expect in a given amount
> of disk space.  You can archive copies onto tape but it is a somewhat
> manual operation.  I still run amanda for tape rotations since it is
> mostly automatic but haven't had to restore from tape in years and hope
> I never have to again.  Backuppc doesn't include open file support but
> it can do pre/post backup commands and mail list users have reported
> success at using those with win2003 server to create snapshots that can
> be backed up completely.
>
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