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Looking for a Good and Reliable Backup Plan/Solution for Mixed environment.

Hi All

I am Looking for some advice for a good and reliable Backup Plan/Solution for a largely mixed environment.
Currently we use simple file compression and SCP to backup majority of our Linux servers we also use Ahsay OBM on some of them and for our Microsoft Workstations, Notebooks and Servers we make use of the Ahsay OBM and Ahsay ABC.

However asof late I have been loosing alot of faith in the reliabiility of the Ahsay Backups and the Linux Server backups are becoming a bit heavy on our backup storage.

Below is shgow we currently backup some of our environments and services:
1.) 20+ Linux Servers The local PSQL DBs get dumped locally (our one SVN server also does the same dumping files locally first) onto the server - there after we do a TGZ compression on the DB dumps and all other critical configs and files - after the compression the TGZ gets SCPd to an offsite server - the offsite server also scp these files on a seperate schedule to another site. Some of these servers also backup making use of the Ahsay OBM for Linux which backs up to the Ahsay Server
2.) 7+ Windows Servers These are a mix of File servers, Sharepoint Servers, MS SQL, Exchange 2007 and AD servers. These all get backed up with the Ahsay OBM to the Ahsay Server using the recommended Ahsay Methods for each service.
3.) 40+ Windows Workstations/Notebooks These all use the Ahsay ABC client and backs up to the Ahsay Server.
4.) Ahsay/Backup Server The server mareplicates all the backups made to a offsite location using the Ahsay Replication Sertvice.

As mentioned - any advice or possible alternatives to try to the Ahsay Server and our current main Linux backup strategy would be welcome. The storage is a Major issue as well as the Reliability of the Ahsay Backup services.

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We use acronis for all our machines linux and windows. If easy to manage and maintain.  http://www.acronis.com/backup-recovery/server-linux/

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Are all your servers physical boxes? What is your budget for migrating from your current solution? What are your ultimate goals for your new b/u solution?

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Hi Coolsport
it is a mix of Physical boxes and Virtual machines (vmware ESXi). we do not have a set budget as such, but we will be able to motivate any costs. The ame is to have a more reliable backup solution (like with the ahsay we have funny backup failures and the comunity support is a bit poor) and the second goal is to better manage backup storage (so if we can get something with good compression and archiving to optimize the space available it will be great).
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The other advantage is that it is priced per GB of needed backup space. You can have unlimited client agents installed.