Hi, I have received considerable help on this site for many of my technical issues so thought it was time to contribute, and what better a topic than BACKUPS.
Preface: We currently have a mixed environment; VMWare, Hyper-V, Physical and virtual desktops, and some Linux. We use quite a few different solutions to assure ourselves that we have the best possible backups AND Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity solutions in place.
Goal: To 'try' and consolidate the different solutions listed below into a more streamlined, cheaper solution; and hopefully get rid of unnecessary software / overkill.
Note: I am not really going to go into the ability to create jobs as I feel in 2014 all major software manufacturers do a pretty good job at it.
WHAT WE USE TODAY:
Barracuda appliance with cloud replication for our MOST CRITICAL files and certain...