[BBLISA] Network-based backup in the Boston metro area?

[Matt Finnigan]

My employer uses and resells Axcient, so obviously we like it - but we
primarily serve the Windows SMB, so you'd need to see if their offerings
fit your needs.


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Charles Homan <bblisa at homan.org> wrote:

> Thanks, Matt.  I guess that begs the question, does anyone have any
> experience - good or bad - with the professional backup services?  We're a
> primarily Linux/Nexenta shop.
>
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Matt Finnigan <mfinnigan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> You'd do well to look at a service that offers an on-site caching
>> appliance - coupled with a hosted offsite repository, you get the best of
>> both worlds, unless your site catches on fire/explodes/etc. Any of the
>> professional backup services will also send you media for restore if you
>> needed it, of course.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Charles Homan <bblisa at homan.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> There are those in my company who want to move to a network-centric
>>> backup plan, as opposed to offsite tapes.  I'm not 100% sold on the idea,
>>> because when I run the numbers it looks like it would take weeks to
>>> restore, say, 10 TB of data if we have to download it on our existing
>>> network links.  The price of the bandwidth to get that to a couple days
>>> looks exorbitant.
>>>
>>> What I'm wondering is if there is a facility in the Boston area that can
>>> accept our backups online, but then return them to us on physical media in
>>> the event of a (major) failure?  Does anyone know of a company that
>>> provides such a service?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Charles
>>>
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