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| dmcintosh 2007-06-02, 7:15 pm |
| Hi,
I need to back up 65 laptops. They are all over the world. The company I
work for does not and would not like to have a Windows Domain server as
we use Open Source servers. They will consider Windows if I propose a
justified solutio
1) I want the laptops to have Backup clients on them
2) Continuous data protection would be a huge PLUS
3) Transmission is crypted
4) transmission when network is detected.
For the moment there are 2 backup solution that seems OK. Atempo and
Veritas Backup exec with DLO. Problem with Atempo is that it requires a
SQL 2000 server which means not only a License for each Atempo client
but also a windows plus SQL CAL. Here we talking 95€ per laptop :-(
Backup exec requires a Windows server. However does it really require a
domain server??
Atempo seems to have better options but Veritas seems cheaper to own.
Ideal would be a Linux solution like Bacuala for Windows but there is
not client so that the client can run a backup
Otherwise any of you people out there have anything better to propose??
Preferably easy to use, deploy and not to expensive
Ideas please and prefabaly some solutions
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| Howard Kaikow 2007-06-03, 1:13 pm |
| Are the backups to be done locally to USB drives?
Use image based, not file based, backup programs.
Solutions may be:
Buy 65+ licenses for Acronis True Image.
Make each system multiboot with Linux, and use a Linux backup program.
Note that I just started playing with Linux (Ubuntu) and have not yet tried
any Linux backup, but some folkes have said good things about PartImage. and
Mondo Rescue. Eventually, i expect to look at both.
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