VEAAM vs DPM

[petben]

Hello, we currently use DPM 2016 for files and folder backup from our file server, 30 days retention, it’s OK ish and cheap but..

 

- restore is slow as hell, displaying the folder list for each days backup takes 5 mins plus.

- since DPM 2016 end user recovery has gone

- I’m still using windows backup for both hyper v servers and physical servers (wbadmin command line)

 

So the Q is do I go back to DPM 2012 to get features and speed back or move to VEAAM for all backups? Will VEAAM Be an affordable option for 20 virtual servers images? And will it provide central management to backup local storage on 40 windows 7/10 workstations?

 

Thanks

[Bruce123]

Hello, we currently use DPM 2016 for files and folder backup from our file server, 30 days retention, it’s OK ish and cheap but..

 

- restore is slow as hell, displaying the folder list for each days backup takes 5 mins plus.

- since DPM 2016 end user recovery has gone

- I’m still using windows backup for both hyper v servers and physical servers (wbadmin command line)

 

So the Q is do I go back to DPM 2012 to get features and speed back or move to VEAAM for all backups? Will VEAAM Be an affordable option for 20 virtual servers images? And will it provide central management to backup local storage on 40 windows 7/10 workstations?

 

Thanks

 

Putting aside the two issues you're experiencing with DPM 2016 at the moment (slow to update the folder list when recovering and no end user recovery), why don't you use DPM to backup Hyper-V VMs? In my experience it's always been more more reliable at backing up VMs than files/folders. And you always have the option of Item level recovery from a backup of a VM for recovery of folder/files, this is how VEEAM allows file level recovery.

 

Thanks,

 

Bruce.

[kidpressingbuttons]

Veeam has always been rock solid for me. Saved me on far too many occasions I will admit to. Veeam free now support power shell commands and you can scheduled your backups using that- veeam advertise this themselves!

 

You could also use veeam endpoint on the workstations. Did this with my physical servers. If you buy the full version of veaam it will report the endpoint backups in the back and recovery console.

[petben]

Thanks, I’ll look at DPM for VMs.

 

With the Veaam option can you suggest the product I need, there’s quite a few.

- hyper v backup (we have 2 mirrored hosts) running 20 VMs all of which need backing up

- 3 x physical servers, 40 x windows 7 where I def need to see backup situation from the single backup server, so that’s 50 x full endpoint licenses.

 

This sounds mega expensive....

Thanks

[Simcfc73]

I used DPM for years before I realised the hyper-v backup option.. I was backing up the hyper-v and then the data.... now just one backup and I can dial into the data and recover individual files and folders and its really quick.