Veeam v Unitrends

[birchanger]

I'm replacing our aged backup system and have a number of proposals in front of me. Most are for Veeam, which I know enough about to be impressed, but one is for Unitrends. I kow nothing about it. Can anyone recommend/disrecommend/comment?

[Chuckster]

Have a look at this, too: https://www.trilead.com/

 

It doesn't need SQL to main a catalogue of backups. It simply reads an XML file it creates for every backup it does of a VM. You can get a 10 day free trial key and keep requesting a new one to the same e-mail address until you're happy to pay for the full product.

[Geoff]

We looked at these recently. Veeam works really well if everything is virtualised. However we also have some physical servers and some tape backups (tape handling in Veeam is a bit naff). So we considered Unitrends because of these two reasons. We decided to just carry on with Backup Exec for those machines and get Veeam though.

[rich_tech]

We use Veeam B+R here for all our VMs and it works a treat, recently had to use its restore function for the first time too after a debacle with AV being mistakenly installed onto our host nodes and that worked flawlessly

[localzuk]

We settled on Veeam for our Hyper-V backups recently. Got it set up now, working well. The initial backup of 1.4TB of VMs took a matter of hours, and our overnight incrementals take about 4 hours total.

 

We stuck with BackupAssist for our "data" backup (as our fileserver isn't virtualised).

[teejay]

Arcserve UDP is worth looking at as well, just been testing various backup software for our new server infrastructure and we found it the best of the bunch.

[robjduk]

I will fight any man, woman or child who claims Veeam is not king of backup solutions

[Chuckster]

I will fight any man, woman or child who claims Veeam is not king of backup solutions

 

What happens when the database goes t*ts up? Which is what happened to me earler in the year on version 8.x. This prompted me to look at other alternatives and a lot of testing later, I plumbed for Trilead VM Explorer. It's got everything you need in comparison to Veeam. Great thing is, is that the .MSI is 30MB and can be installed on any Windows OS (workstation or server).

[robjduk]

Then I use Veeam to restore it with the SQL explorer or I would just restore the entire server in the minutes it takes.

[localzuk]

What happens when the database goes t*ts up? Which is what happened to me earler in the year on version 8.x. This prompted me to look at other alternatives and a lot of testing later, I plumbed for Trilead VM Explorer. It's got everything you need in comparison to Veeam. Great thing is, is that the .MSI is 30MB and can be installed on any Windows OS (workstation or server).

 

Restore the database from its latest working backup?

[Geoff]

Friends don't let friends run their SQL server in a non-HA setup.