We need to replace the backup system in our company and we are considering to buy an appliance to integrate all our backups. We currently have backup exec for physical servers and Veeam for virtual servers, we do all backups to disk and then to tape.
We were evaluating Symantec Backup Exec 3600 and Unitrends, but after reading and talking with sales people we are more confused. At least we are sure of these things:
- We are interested in an appliance (single point of contact in case of problems)
- We need to backup physical and virtual servers with only one application
- We need d2d2t
- We have 2.8TB of raw data (without deduplication and compression)
- We need to buy a new LTO drive/library
We know that Symantec appliance will be discontinued in 2015 but it will have support till 2020 (and who knows what can happen in 5 years). We have been using...