Data Backup solution for Linux servers
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@Dashrender said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:
@JaredBusch said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:
For the OP, a Unitrends solution may well be the best solution, especially if they still offer the product free for users with less than 1TB of data to backup.
Here's a question - was the free one limited to 1 TB to backup, or 1 TB of backup storage?
I never found that out too and want to know as it might be a good solution for one of my remote sites
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@hobbit666 said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:
@Dashrender said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:
@JaredBusch said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:
For the OP, a Unitrends solution may well be the best solution, especially if they still offer the product free for users with less than 1TB of data to backup.
Here's a question - was the free one limited to 1 TB to backup, or 1 TB of backup storage?
I never found that out too and want to know as it might be a good solution for one of my remote sites
My understanding was backup as multiple versions can, of course, make you hit 1TB very easily.
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@theOtherGuy said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:
@Tim_G said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:
You will need 4 licensing models for a typical mixed environment:
Free - VEB (because a lot of people do tend to use it with servers, although that's not what it was designed for, and you shouldn't)
Paid - B&R (for hypervisors - enterprises typically need this in a standard mixed environment)
Paid - Veeam Agent for Linux (needed for physical Linux servers that are not hypervisors)
Paid - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows (needed for physical windows servers that are not hypervisors)You, Sir, are making wrong statements
1.B&R - offers a Free version that lets you backup VMs.
2.Veeam Agent for Linux - has fully functional free version
3.Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows - not even released yet and will offer free version as well.Okay... so then you'll be stuck with 4 separate free products... my point still remains the same. I think like 99% of all backup solutions have a free version. But at least with Unitrends (and many others), you'd only need a single free product. With Veeam, you'd need maybe 4 separate ones. Whether it's free or paid wasn't the point.
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@Tim_G said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:
@theOtherGuy said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:
@Tim_G said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:
You will need 4 licensing models for a typical mixed environment:
Free - VEB (because a lot of people do tend to use it with servers, although that's not what it was designed for, and you shouldn't)
Paid - B&R (for hypervisors - enterprises typically need this in a standard mixed environment)
Paid - Veeam Agent for Linux (needed for physical Linux servers that are not hypervisors)
Paid - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows (needed for physical windows servers that are not hypervisors)You, Sir, are making wrong statements
1.B&R - offers a Free version that lets you backup VMs.
2.Veeam Agent for Linux - has fully functional free version
3.Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows - not even released yet and will offer free version as well.Okay... so then you'll be stuck with 4 separate free products... my point still remains the same. I think like 99% of all backup solutions have a free version. But at least with Unitrends (and many others), you'd only need a single free product. With Veeam, you'd need maybe 4 separate ones. Whether it's free or paid wasn't the point.
As a Veeam user, you may be right in that they are 4 different products. However, the VEB and agents all integrate with B&R. There is a caveat to this. You can monitor the VEB's in B&R, but cannot make any changes to the settings themselves. All you can do to the VEB's is just restrict who can make backups and who doesn't. You won't be able to make changes to frequency or times, etc.
