Re: Commerical Backup Solutions

[Mike Lyon <mike.lyon () gmail com>]

I dont think the livevault solution offers for bare metal backups.
Tthey may if you have their appliance but not sure.

-mike

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On May 20, 2012, at 14:04, Steve Bertrand <steve.bertrand () gmail com> wrote:

> On 2012-05-17 16:59, Mike Lyon wrote:
> > We used Acronis and it was a nightmare as was their off-shored support
> > model. Never again... Wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole.
> >
> > Switched to Iron Mountain LiveVault which backs everything up over the
> > wire. It has basic reporting functions but not extremely granular.
> > http://ironmountain.com/services/democenter/livevault/player.html
>
> Does Iron Mountain LiveVault allow for bare metal restorations? I didn't see it after gleaning the site.
>
> In my new job, we're using BackupExec pulling the data from ~100 servers to a SAN and then to tape. Iron Mountain 
> comes in every day to to replace our tapes for offsite storage.
>
> For the few boxes we have that aren't configured in HA pairs or clusters, we periodically do a snapshot with Acronis 
> specifically for the bare metal restoration ability.
>
> Steve