Push Vs Pull backups?

[Rob_D]

Sorry if this is in the wrong place.

 

I'm looking at upgrading the backups for my servers and I'm after some advise/ best practises/ what you do, regarding how backups are run.

At the moment the backup software sits on the server being backed up, "pushing" backups to remote drives/servers.

Would changing to a system where the backup software and task are run from the remote computer "pulling" the backups off the live server be beneficial/recommended?

 

Thanks guys!

Edited February 9, 2016 by elsiegee40

[smithson83]

I would of thought pushing the backup to a remote machine would be better. The backup software would be "aware" of services etc running on the Server to be backed up, VSS, SQL, Exhange, DeDupe etc, this may not be the case when pulling the backup to a remote machine.

[localzuk]

Many "pull" backup setups use agents so have visibility of services etc...

 

I'd base my decision on a couple of things - what sort of servers are you backing up? Physical, virtual etc... How many servers are you backing up?

[Rob_D]

Thanks for your replies (I hand't thought of "pull" needing to know what was going on, on the other computer).

At the moment it's backup for the (physical) file server. It may become 2 servers shortly, but still just backing up files/folders.

[localzuk]

If it is simple files, I'd be looking at using a simple piece of software like BackupAssist to do push backup from each server.