Recommendations of Backup Software?

[Rivers]

I need to be able to backup some of my PDCs a few other trusted domains
across our WAN links (the whole stuff, inclusive of the registry). We don't
have our MIS staff going down there everyday so we decided to do a backup
where we are located. Can anyone recommend me software which is actually
able to do this? It would be good if this software would be able to do
online backups' as well.

Many Thanks!

 

[KeyTech]

Have a look at this and see if there anything
there that you want/need?

http://www.products.storage.hp.com/eprise/main/storage/DisplayPages/storageindex.htm

Jay~

If its broken, just leave it and hope someone else fixs it!
~KeyTech

 

[davepresuhn]

You have several issues to consider here.

1. Don't span the WAN. This could be a very slow process, depending on the kind of link you have.

2. We use ARCServe here for backup over the wire. From a standpoint of user-friendly and stable, I don't recommend it. ARCServe is okay, but the database gets corrupted inside of a month. And if a file is bad, trying to back it up can bring the whole server down. The UI is good, but that's the highest praise I can give it. I try every year to replace it, but run into a brick wall.

 

[Stefke]

We use Legato NetWorker and backup 15 NT servers a day : file partitions, registry and repairdisk information.
There is a lot of tuning to do, especially to get a good speed (devices, connections, ...). Another point is that you must foresee disk space to store the client indexes (!).

I do have a negative point for Legato : SUPPORT . It is a do-it-(and test it)yourself soft. Don't expect quick responses in case of problems.

Good luck with your choice !

 

[mikes999]

On the topic - I tried (for W2K server, though), Veritas and Tapeware (the latter was free - came with SureStore device). Both are pretty good, but i liked tapeware better - very simple tune-up, run fast, but it was a local, not a WAN backup.

 

[skimmilk]

We also use ArcServe and had exactly the same errors of file corruption, but as a whole the system seems to run very reliable as long as the media type and brand are reliable.
Good Luck

 

[Scanner]

Veritas 8.5 works great for us (with the Agent Accelerator option) over a small WAN.

If your WAN needs are more robust than a single, server-riding tape drive, they also have a Shared Storage option that would allow the use of several network-based tape devices (i.e. tape jukeboxes) to be used for backups.

We haven't needed to try that yet, but sooner or later...