From the course: Career Essentials in System Administration by Microsoft and LinkedIn

Commercial backup options from third-party companies

From the course: Career Essentials in System Administration by Microsoft and LinkedIn

Commercial backup options from third-party companies

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- [Instructor] Third-party backup programs are better than built-in free applications because they give you more options. The first is that you can back up multiple computers from one backup server. You also have more types of backups you can perform, they can use cloud storage and convert to virtual machines. Backup Exec has been owned by many companies over the years such as Arcadia, Veritas, Seagate, Symantec, and now Veritas again after Symantec spun the company off to its own entity. Veritas makes many backup products but Backup Exec is their most popular. NetBackup should also be mentioned because it was originally based on Unix and is more scalable for data centers that run non-Windows operating systems. It also costs more and supports more media devices that Backup Exec doesn't. Although Veritas has on-premises solutions, they also have many new cloud options as well. The, as-a-service backups allow you to rent Backup Exec instead of purchase it and save data locally or to cloud storage. You can buy appliances with Backup Exec built-in and preconfigured if you don't want to dedicate your own server for the job. There are also analytics tools to make sure you stay in compliance no matter what market you're in. The next product is called Veeam. This is one of the newer products in the last decade and has marketed themselves as being able to do what other products have done but without all the bugs and issues. There are several categories of Veeam products for which you can download. Veeam has also figured out a way to get itself added to the Azure Portal to do cloud backups. Workloads are broken up into the types of backups an administrator may perform based on their organization. You can back up to physical or cloud storage devices. They also offer a strip down free version. Products are broken up into the features you want with each workload. The community version is free. The higher end products have better encryption, security, and more granular restore options for products like SQL and Microsoft Exchange server. Unlike other vendors, Commvault has just one main product called Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery. The product can back up to many different cloud backends. It offers application and database protections. It can also back up virtual machines and clients. The Orchestrate product allows moving applications to other servers if needed. This can add high availability similar to a clustered operation. The Activate product is a compliance manager that seeks out data that could have compliance regulations attached to it and notifies the administrator. It can help reduce risk to an organization. Hedvig creates clustered storage in a similar way as Windows storage spaces It uses a minimum of three physical servers called nodes, that can offer high availability to your storage needs. Metallic is a product that backs up your data in a similar way as Commvault Complete, but the application is in the cloud. Configure it using a cloud based application. The advantage is that you don't need any onsite storage or servers to back up the data. The downside may be that the cost is the highest and the recovery time would be much longer without onsite storage. There are many more third party products available but these make up the majority of the market share and have a reputation for doing an adequate job. Although all backup products have potential bugs and issues, there's many forums and support options to make sure you have reliable backups.

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