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rljb1804 · 08-22-2008, 08:59 AM

Oke, let's get a little more technical.

We ourself, use IASO Backup. We have tested a lot of vendors, but this one stood out in the storm. Most vendors provide you with backup of databases, live backup of SQL, bricklevel exchange, etc, so this is not an issue.
The main profit is in the use of the storage. Practically all vendors use the same technique as used in tapestreamer-software in the old days. This if know as incremental or differential backup. No problem with that, but it has a few downsides. One of that is that you grow within your storage, between 2-4 percent per day, depending on the number of days retention you would like to have. IASO is (or at least was) the only one, who uses a different technique, called delta backup. This deltabackup is so efficient, they only grow between 0,1 and 0,5 percent per day. Imagine the use of your storage and the use of the clientbandwith on a 100GB dataset!!!!! this is the difference between sending 200Mb per night at best with the competitors over 50Mb at worst with IASO. This was our main focus to use IASO and not BackupAgent. Furthermore, like I tried to describe in my previous post, It is unstable, or at least not stable enough for us. It crashed in the tests we performed, and had a huge downtime in storage, where IASO had 100 percent uptime and no crashes!

I hope I clarified myself a little.

Regards,

Ronald.

ps. don't go for price, look for quality. It allways pays back in the long run.

08-22-2008, 08:59 AM	#9 (permalink)
rljb1804 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 8	Re: BackUpAgent Oke, let's get a little more technical. We ourself, use IASO Backup. We have tested a lot of vendors, but this one stood out in the storm. Most vendors provide you with backup of databases, live backup of SQL, bricklevel exchange, etc, so this is not an issue. The main profit is in the use of the storage. Practically all vendors use the same technique as used in tapestreamer-software in the old days. This if know as incremental or differential backup. No problem with that, but it has a few downsides. One of that is that you grow within your storage, between 2-4 percent per day, depending on the number of days retention you would like to have. IASO is (or at least was) the only one, who uses a different technique, called delta backup. This deltabackup is so efficient, they only grow between 0,1 and 0,5 percent per day. Imagine the use of your storage and the use of the clientbandwith on a 100GB dataset!!!!! this is the difference between sending 200Mb per night at best with the competitors over 50Mb at worst with IASO. This was our main focus to use IASO and not BackupAgent. Furthermore, like I tried to describe in my previous post, It is unstable, or at least not stable enough for us. It crashed in the tests we performed, and had a huge downtime in storage, where IASO had 100 percent uptime and no crashes! I hope I clarified myself a little. Regards, Ronald. ps. don't go for price, look for quality. It allways pays back in the long run.