To understand this phenomenon, let’s take a look at Google trends.
Why did this happen? How come that market leader lost a customer? And I guess we were not the only one. We found Veeam, did a test, liked what we saw and moved away from Backup exec. You were not able to group jobs and the way product worked was so different that was not humane. Job monitor was gone and multi-server job feature was non existing. All the jobs that we had were gone and logic for tape backup was 360 degrees away from old – correct way of doing backup to tape. User interface changed 1000%, it was basically a new product, not related to BackupExec at all. But 2012, sigh, it changed a perspective and respect I had for Symantec. Until version 2012, most of upgrades went fine. Symantec provided product videos and they were twitting several times a day success stories and how great is their latest product .
Twitter, Facebook, blogosphere, they were all praising latest and greatest. For the first time, I noticed enormous marketing push and extent of online campaigns.
I received mail to my inbox in the morning, that Symantec just released version 2012. We compared several solutions and said hey let’s do some testing and compare products available. BackupExec was not an option as it had horrible support for VMware backup. We migrated most of the infrastructure from Physical to Virtual. There had to be something better, affordable solution. How long can you afford to be without backup? In my case it was a week. Or your backup works until it decides to stop. For the most part, solution was there. Imagine having a major incident, your infrastructure borked, you try to restore and nothing. Technician never got back to you and you had to browse for solution in their forums. When that didn’t happen you called Symantec support again, you had to wait, again, polite guy would answer, get the same information from you and again promise you that technician will get in touch. If you had a problem and called in, you had to wait for a long time for a lady to tell you that technician will call you back.
#Veeam backup physical servers update#
It also happened that one patch failed to install, when that happened, Live Update failed to update Backup Exec with remaining patches. Sometimes it was not possible to continue with patch installation. You could be updating for an hour or even more, if you were lucky and got an update that borked something.
#Veeam backup physical servers install#
When you installed Backup Exec you had to spend a while to download and install all the patches / Service Packs. I don’t know why, but every time Symantec released a hefty service pack I was trembling if update will bork installation or not. You must create and manage Azure Blob storage when using partner solutions.But, it’s not all roses, you see, there were also problems. Blob Storage: Blob storage that partner solutions such as Commvault connect to for backing up data and applications.You don't need to create or manage an Azure Blob storage account when using Azure Backup. Azure Backup service runs on the cloud and holds the recovery points, enforces policies, and enables you to manage data and application protection.It also has two days of backup data for operational recovery. Azure Backup Server orchestrates the backup of machines and manages the configuration of the restore procedures.Architectureĭownload an SVG of this architecture. These services run in a high-availability environment, patched and supported, allowing you to focus on your solution instead of the environment they run in. This solution is built on the Azure managed services: Backup Server, Azure Backup, and Blob Storage. Alternatively, a partner solution such as Commvault Simpana or Veeam Availability Suite, hosted on-premises, can write backups to Blob storage directly or via a cloud endpoint such as Veeam Cloud Connect. Azure Backup Server can write backups directly to Azure Backup. An internet connection to Azure is used to connect to Azure Backup or to Azure Blob storage.
If you'd like to see us expand this article with more information, such as potential use cases, alternative services, implementation considerations, or pricing guidance, let us know with GitHub Feedback!īack up data and applications from an on-premises system to Azure using Azure Backup or a partner solution.
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