A project I was recently involved with was basically revamping a failing Backup system due to the environment outgrowing Symantec Backup Exec. The environment was mostly UNIX. Backups were inconsistent and a lot of administration and babysitting had to occur for a good set of tapes to get ready for …

Box Backup specs:

• Server: UNIX (probably Linux), with a lot of hard disk space
• Clients: UNIX or windows. Clients can be configured as lazy (CDP) or snapshot mode

What it does well:

• File level backups from UNIX or Windows hosts

What it doesn't do:

• Application level backups such as MS …

About a year ago, a client needed a NetApp (NFS server), but the IPO wasn't there yet, and the startup's balance sheet was still in the Red. Needless to say after a few trials, we ended up with Open-E DSS because of budget constraints.

Oh what a roller-coaster it has …