Backup Solutions

[Scarpozzi]

I'm searching for suggestions. We've been using ArcServIt here for sometime. We've got many servers and gigs of data that need to be updated nightly. I really like tapes because they're easily archived and are fairly reliable. Anyone else know of a good backup system that might run under Novell besides ArcServ?

I only ask because I need outside opinions. Thanks...

 

[bozo1]

Backup Exec works well.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Have you ever run it before? And if so, what platform did you run it under? Thanks...

 

[Night201]

I second that.

 

[SaigonK]

One word: Legato (That is if you have $$$ to spend.) Works like a charm for us, and we back up tons fo data each night!

 

[Tallgeese]

Another vote for BackupExec.

I've used it since it was owned by Seagate (who had bought) it from someone else).
Veritas has really honed the product, which even 4 years ago was head and shoulders above all the rest in its class.

Most of my experience has been on the WinNT and Win2K platform, because it absolutely kicks ass in that incarnation.
It is a quite robust product on NW as well, but the best performance with it is seen backing up like platform to like platform, ie. NW => NW

Possible downside: Veritas eliminated the Enterprise versions of its licenses, which translated immediately into a 30% cost hike for our particular setup.

HTH

 

[jugdishy]

How do those of you who like backup exec get around the 4gig limitation when backing up to another disk? I have a win98 system with just over 8gig of data. I'd like to do a full system backup. Suggestions?

 

[Tallgeese]

<< How do those of you who like backup exec get around the 4gig limitation when backing up to another disk? >>

Are you talking about BackupExec Desktop? or the server-level product?

 

[bozo1]

Really. I've done 60GB backups to a file with no problems. (Server backed up to file on another system, then dumped to tape.)

 

[jugdishy]

Yes, I'm using Backup Exec (and just tried Backup MyPC) with a network drive as my destination storage. When the data backed up reaches 4G, a message comes up saying that there is insufficient space to continue. This 4G limit is a FAT32 limit from what I read on Microsoft's site. Fyi, when I use Drive Image to create a disk-to-disk image within the same box, it's smart enough to know the limitations and (somewhat transparent to the user) break's the image file into 2G chunks - but Drive Image will not create an image on a networked drive. I see other folks in this forum dissing various backup utilities because of this 4G limit. But obviously someone has found a work-around? I have a small home network with a server that has lots of disk space. I have a grand vision that I can backup my client machines to this disk space across the network. Any suggestions?