I currently have a small-office network, 2 Servers 1 running SBS 2003, the other Server 2003, and 12 clients running Win XP Pro. On some of the client PCs I run an online backup on SBS tape backup. Could someone tell me the downside of running an online backup like Carbonite that runs in the background on SBS 2003 or Server 2003.
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SBS and Online backup
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Carbonite lost their customers data a while back, don't touch them with a barge poll.
We use depositit for our DR/BCP remote backup and have done for 5 years, though we don't use it to backup exchange as it's better to have a 3rd party service such as the service we use from webroot to archive your email in line with Sarbanes Oxley as well as spam filter, anti-virus and content filter before delivering to our exchange.
There is an alternative we are trialing for remote backup which has Exchange and SQL plugins to backup using Delta technology.
Serverhold -> datastowaway, it has a lot of features and is cheaper than depotitit, however, so far it doesn't seem to work well on SBS 2003 and I'm awaiting technical support to fix our many issues with their software , if at all possible.
It seems to be far too resource hungry and when I turned on their CDP option (Continuous Data Protection), it wouldn't trun back off and used 70+ CPU constantly on the server, now i don't call that a background process do you?
In the end we had to kill the server and uninstall the software, lets hope they can fix these many issues!
So far depositit has never let us down!
"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you."
"If a shortcut was meant to be easy, it wouldn't be a shortcut, it would be the way!
We use depositit for our DR/BCP remote backup and have done for 5 years, though we don't use it to backup exchange as it's better to have a 3rd party service such as the service we use from webroot to archive your email in line with Sarbanes Oxley as well as spam filter, anti-virus and content filter before delivering to our exchange.
There is an alternative we are trialing for remote backup which has Exchange and SQL plugins to backup using Delta technology.
Serverhold -> datastowaway, it has a lot of features and is cheaper than depotitit, however, so far it doesn't seem to work well on SBS 2003 and I'm awaiting technical support to fix our many issues with their software , if at all possible.
It seems to be far too resource hungry and when I turned on their CDP option (Continuous Data Protection), it wouldn't trun back off and used 70+ CPU constantly on the server, now i don't call that a background process do you?
In the end we had to kill the server and uninstall the software, lets hope they can fix these many issues!
So far depositit has never let us down!
"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you."
"If a shortcut was meant to be easy, it wouldn't be a shortcut, it would be the way!
ShackDaddy
MIS
I've been reselling Dakota's online backup solution to my clients for a while and like it so far. They charge you for compressed data, not uncompressed, so that's cool, and they send you an external hard drive to create the initial seed backup so that you aren't killing your internet at night and taking a couple of weeks for the initial sync. The Dakota system is Exchange and SQL aware, and I've found that it's not hard to set their agent up to coexist with other types of backups without causing a problem.
I've set up Carbonite for one very small business with only two users, but I made sure that both users were also using Outlook in cached mode with Outlook Anywhere on home systems, just to keep an off-site of their mailboxes, and ensured they weren't putting things they cared about in public folders. In general though, because Carbonite doesn't know how to back up Exchange properly, it's not a good SBS backup solution. If you want to use Carbonite to capture a chunk of non-Exchange business data, you could do worse, but why create an incomplete recovery solution?
Dave Shackelford
ThirdTier.net
I've set up Carbonite for one very small business with only two users, but I made sure that both users were also using Outlook in cached mode with Outlook Anywhere on home systems, just to keep an off-site of their mailboxes, and ensured they weren't putting things they cared about in public folders. In general though, because Carbonite doesn't know how to back up Exchange properly, it's not a good SBS backup solution. If you want to use Carbonite to capture a chunk of non-Exchange business data, you could do worse, but why create an incomplete recovery solution?
Dave Shackelford
ThirdTier.net
I like the initial seed synchronisation service, great idea.
It's been two days and still ServerHold is doing it's initial sync, at this rate my trial will run out before i've even got a backup completed!
Be carefull about having OFT's as a backup, for some bizzare reason known only to MS, you cannot import or use an OFT file, it has to be converted to a PST first, and it seems only 3rd party software you have to pay for have a program for doing this MS does not provide one.
I got stung big time finding that little nugget out!
AS for the carbonite incident here is some info on it..
and Promise clearly refute Carbonite's claims it was their fault...
Who is going to trust a company that doesn't 1stly mirror any clients backed up data to multiple servers in different locations let alone accept responsibility when things go wrong.
Use carbonite at your peril.
"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you."
"If a shortcut was meant to be easy, it wouldn't be a shortcut, it would be the way!
It's been two days and still ServerHold is doing it's initial sync, at this rate my trial will run out before i've even got a backup completed!
Be carefull about having OFT's as a backup, for some bizzare reason known only to MS, you cannot import or use an OFT file, it has to be converted to a PST first, and it seems only 3rd party software you have to pay for have a program for doing this MS does not provide one.
I got stung big time finding that little nugget out!
AS for the carbonite incident here is some info on it..
and Promise clearly refute Carbonite's claims it was their fault...
Who is going to trust a company that doesn't 1stly mirror any clients backed up data to multiple servers in different locations let alone accept responsibility when things go wrong.
Use carbonite at your peril.
"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you."
"If a shortcut was meant to be easy, it wouldn't be a shortcut, it would be the way!
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