by chrislomax on 6/13/2014, 10:40:40 PM with 1 comments
I apologise if this has been asked before but I am stuck in a dilemma and would like people's opinions on the best backup software / backup as a service solution.
I am setting up a small web cluster and my current DC is making redundant their current backup services to make way for their new services which will be coming early 2015.
They aren't taking on any new backup plans on servers and are asking customers to find alternative solutions in the interim.
I've been looking around at solutions today but it is a minefield of services and I don't know who to trust.
It's basically 3 boxes at the minute, 2 Linux and 1 Windows.
Ideally I would like it to be agent based so there is a central server which requests the servers backups and scheduling is managed at the central service.
I would like it bare metal and file recovery.
The type of solution I ideally want is a backup cloud service that runs Idera (this offers all of the above).
Like I say, I'm not adverse to this all being offsite in a cloud solution. So long as it is reliable (as can be) and it is close to my servers in case I need to be a bare metal restore.
I used to using a NAS and some local backup software but I've used Idera before and it works better to be honest and I trust it more than simple backups.
Can anyone recommend anything? I'm stuck looking at sites that make all sorts of promises but you never really know until you need them the most and then it could be too late.
I am setting up a small web cluster and my current DC is making redundant their current backup services to make way for their new services which will be coming early 2015.
They aren't taking on any new backup plans on servers and are asking customers to find alternative solutions in the interim.
I've been looking around at solutions today but it is a minefield of services and I don't know who to trust.
It's basically 3 boxes at the minute, 2 Linux and 1 Windows.
Ideally I would like it to be agent based so there is a central server which requests the servers backups and scheduling is managed at the central service.
I would like it bare metal and file recovery.
The type of solution I ideally want is a backup cloud service that runs Idera (this offers all of the above).
Like I say, I'm not adverse to this all being offsite in a cloud solution. So long as it is reliable (as can be) and it is close to my servers in case I need to be a bare metal restore.
I used to using a NAS and some local backup software but I've used Idera before and it works better to be honest and I trust it more than simple backups.
Can anyone recommend anything? I'm stuck looking at sites that make all sorts of promises but you never really know until you need them the most and then it could be too late.
Thanks