Re: Success Stories

On 02/18 11:14 , Johan van den Berg wrote:
> I am extremely keen to start implementing BackupPC on some of my 
> clients' sites, but need some backing to prove to them that BackupPC is 
> worth it.  If you have some success stories, would you please send them 
> to me?  Important things like; amount of data, amount of services/pcs 
> that are backed up, days/months/years since implementation, disaster 
> recovery success, etc. need to be included.

I've been using it here at work for about a year now; and have been very
happy with it. I set up a test backup server for a few machines; and it was
so convenient and easy to use that the boss had me backing up all kinds of
things very soon. we're currently backing up about 50 hosts, with ~800GB of
total data. it's running on a 750MHz Duron, with 512MB RAM and 250GB of disk
on 3ware IDE RAID controllers and Linux LVM for flexibility.

Since then, we've deployed it on several large clients' networks, including
a 1200GB disk array that's backing up several servers at a Co-Lo in Virginia
to some offices in Arizona. This handles 1800 users' data (mail, images,
documents); as well as their authentication information and some databases.

Everyone seems pretty universally happy with it. I've used it a few times to
restore servers and workstations (including my own) after disks have died or
been corrupted (fan dies, disks overheat, *all* the disks in the RAID array
die, there goes your data).

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com


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