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Re:Maybe switch to Linux by pnutjam · 2018-08-02 01:55 · Score: 1 · on Alaskan Town Finds Solace in Typewriters Following Last Week's BitPaymer Ransomware Infection (bleepingcomputer.com)

Linux backup systems are so much more flexible then windows and relatively easy to use. If your not linux savy, Unitrends has a great solution. I've used them in the past and it's top notch support.

Re:Cyptowall is very sophisticated by Anonymous Coward · 2015-01-07 03:13 · Score: 2, Informative · on Inside Cryptowall 2.0 Ransomware

I wouldn't be surprised to see this actually be a niche market, similar to NAS appliances.

There is quite a lively backup appliance market. For example these can do pretty much everything you described.

[1]: Yes, this kills deduplication... but there are some machines which need to be secured in case the backup appliance gets hacked.

You are also completely right here, there is a constant battle between security and deduplication.

Full Disclosure: Posting AC because I am a developer at Unitrends.

Re:I prefer online by pnutjam · 2010-03-05 01:51 · Score: 1 · on Long-Term Storage of Moderately Large Datasets?

Check out unitrends. They do very good d2d backup systems, very inexpensive, handles open files and replicates between units if you have multiple.

OpenSolaris/ZFS or Unitrends by deuxexmachina · 2009-09-19 23:21 · Score: 1 · on Best Backup Server Option For University TV Station?

If I have spare time and someone I can hand it off to, and if my user can't afford to spend that much, and the user has a relaly high quality WAN with a ton of bandwidth, I tend to use OpenSolaris, ZFS, rsync, and other open source stuff. As mentioned before, ZFS is a killer file system - absolte best out there - and you can put together a cheap app server and storage server and wire this stuff together. It does require handing off to soemoen who knows what they're doing - new releases and bugs and stuff can really suck time from you. Most of the time I use Unitrends It's an integrated appliance that does disk-to-disk backup and has replication and all taht stuff built in with a killer user interface and support I can point someone to instead of having to do it myself. I like the disk archive stuff because most of the time WAN bandwidth is an issue and I like whatever they've done in replication because it seems fastger than rsync on what I do. Plus because their unknown I like the fact I can get this priced below what pure software stuff from Symantec (which has the worst support in the universe) and CommVault (expensive as hell). I think the user interface they have kicks ass too particularly when I have to hand off to someone who isn't as technical as I am.

Re:Different Solutions by pnutjam · 2009-09-17 04:14 · Score: 2, Informative · on Best Backup Server Option For University TV Station?

for a multi-vendor environment, take a look at Unitrends. I use them and they are really sweet, disk to disk, any OS, bare-metal windows (and linux), hot swappable off-site drive or off-site vaulting. Plus, there is no charge for clients if you want to backup a database, or exchange server. It's all inclusive, even the open file client.
In my experience, getting open files backed up is the hardest thing in a 24/7 environment.

UniTrends by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-22 09:08 · Score: 1, Interesting · on Online Backup Solutions?

Remember, backing up the data files is great, but how do you restore from a COMPLETE failure from fire, flood, vandals or whatever. We use the DPU (Data Protection Unit) from Unitrends. http://www.unitrends.com./ Their system supports over 20 different operating systems and includes a "bare-metal" restore. If a server is destroyed, stolen or whatever, it creates a bootable CD that allows for a complete restore of the OS, drivers, software and all those settings you never wrote down! Then it restores the data files. It is completely disk-to-disk and extremely fast. Tapes are OK for smaller systems, (until they become unreadable) but for quick backup and restores of larger data sets, nothing beats disk-to-disk. With their hot-swap drives, you can rotate backups offsite. We backup Windows, Linux and MACs. When Hurricane Dennis was headed our way, all I had to do was pull one 400GB drive and take it with me. All of my backups from all the different systems were combined to just one drive. As an added bonus, the founder of the company has been a developer of backup software for over 18 years. Remember "lone-tar" anyone?

Re:backup programs for Linux by Clith · 1999-07-15 21:14 · Score: 2 · on Ask Slashdot: Heterogeneous Network Backups w/Linux?

This is simply a URL-enabled version of the informative posting, all URL's verified and typo-checked. :-)

Freeware

http://www.amanda.org/ - Amanda

ftp://ftp.zn-gmbh.com/pub/linux/ - afbackup

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~jmelski/burt/ - Burt

http://www.estinc.com/features.html - BRU

http://www.estinc.com/qsdr.html - Quickstart

Commercial

http://www.unitrends.com/bp.html - Backup Professional

http://www.unitrends.com/ctar.html - CTAR

http://www.unitrends.com/ctarnet.html - CTAR:NET