Backup Technologies Revisited

o Physical or Virtual or Both o Full VM or Agent o On-site or Off-Site or Both o Application Consistent or Crash Consistent o Disk or Tape or Cloud

o Still one of the best ways for large datasets o Many implications to think about for integration o How will this work with your environment o Do you need to run two backup packages to get it to tape o Do you require taking tapes off site? o LTO going up in capacity

o Normal Players o Backup Exec o ArcServ o Acronis o Symantec System Recovery o Windows Server Backup

o Veeam o VRanger o VMware Data Protection / Advanced (VDPA) o Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM)

o Big Players o Barracuda Products o Dattos Products o Dell AppAssure o Benefits o Have Data on-site for quick backups and restore o Ability to link to a cloud for long term retention and DR o Timing of backups / DeDuplication / Compression

o Big Players o Veeam Backup & Replication o Carbonite o Mozy o Crashplan o Others… o Benefits o Cheaper plans up front, no hardware costs o Downside o Lots of bandwidth usage o Little control of bandwidth based on backup time o Totally reliant on cloud & internet to do a restore

o How to backup network devices o Routers o Firewalls o Switches o Phone Systems o Others… o Backup Configurations with FTP/SFTP? o Open source software? Rancid, Zenoss