Cloud Backup solution

[CosmoJoe]

Greetings! Our company is working on rolling out a backup solution to our users (desktop/laptop). We are looking at a cloud backup solution so that we can avoid having to roll out hardware to our various regional offices. We have been looking at solutions from Mozy, CrashPlan and Druva. They all seem pretty solid although Mozy seemed to take the longest to finish its initial backup for some of our test users.

Gartner pointed to Druva being the best overall solution and I am personally leaning towards it as I really like the management interface.

Anyone have production experience with any of these solutions? Thanks in advance!

 

[Tristor]

It depends on what features you're looking for, but personally I use SpiderOak because it uses zero-knowledge keys to encrypt the data. This is rather important to me, as it means my backups are secure from a security breach at SpiderOak or intentional snooping. Some of the business data I back up is confidential, so the only other solution I would use is something that pre-encrypts in the client (for awhile I was using a tool called BakThat http://docs.bakthat.io/en/latest/# but it became unmanageable after awhile).

Just some food for thought. Ultimately it's all about what you're after. Security is a primary concern for me, so I will only use solutions where I have total control of my keys. If that's not a problem for you, CrashPlan, Druva, and BackBlaze are all well-regarded and have very inexpensive storage.

 

[Z15CAM]

I don't believe you're going to beat the old 1.32MB GHOST.EXE app with a Dos Bootable Storage device that encompasses a GUI Boot Migration to anyone on the NetWork.

 

[cruelmelissa]

To tell the truth, I have never tried them at all as the only thing I work with is
Acronis Backup Advanced that seems to be able to backup to the cloud and store there everything you wish. And in any case it is not worth than Mozy or CrashPlan.

 

[corkyg]

Cloud storage can definitely be part of a planned backup system. The plan should also consider local offline and online storage. Planned redundancy is the teaching point.

 

[CosmoJoe]

Cloud storage can definitely be part of a planned backup system. The plan should also consider local offline and online storage. Planned redundancy is the teaching point.

We thought about local storage but would like to avoid installing servers and storage appliances if possible. We also have a lot of regional offices around the world and getting storage/servers to some of them (customs, etc) is a huge PITA. We are hoping to go cloud only.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I use Crashplan+ for my home server environment and it works well.