Backup & Disaster Recovery
Backup and Disaster recovery although often linked are in reality separate processes and often to get best performance need dedicated products for each job.
SEP Sesam is an Enterprise Backup product with a price tag to match the likes of Backup Exec or ArcServe.
SEP Sesam can replace multiple backup solutions. Backup Microsoft, Linux, Unix and more along with most common databases and groupware products.
Features include Bare Metal Recovery, Backup to Disk, Tape, Disk to Disk, Disk to Tape, it also integrates with VMware, Citrix XenServer even Open Source XEN!
Got a mixed environment? Want to backup eDirectory, AD, OES2 NSS Clusters, Exchange & MSSQL from using ONE backup product from ONE central server, then SEP Sesam is for you.
Feel that your backups are taking far too long and you want to speed things up while adding extra features, SEP Sesam is multi-threaded allows simultaneous backup of multiple servers to a single Tape or Virtual Tape (disk) which can massively reduce backup windows.
Want to know more? Check out if your environment is supported by visiting SEP Sesam's support matrix.
Veeam produce a range of excellent products to compliment a VMware virtual infrastructure with their flagship product being, in our opinion, Veeam Backup & Replication.
Veeam Backup & Replication lets you recover an entire VM or an individual object from any application or file system—all from the same image-level backup. There are no agents to install or manage, and automated tasks can verify the recoverability of every backup.
Veeam Backup & Replication also provides image-based replication of VMware Virtual Machines across local and wide area networks (LANs and WANs). It provides near-continuous data protection (near-CDP) for a fraction of the cost of traditional CDP. It also provides the ability to store multiple snapshots of a replica so you can recover a server back in time. You can replicate on-site for high availability, or near-site/off-site for disaster recovery.
So what does all this mean? In practical terms you can set up replication of VMware Virtual Machines, Configure Veeam to auto-validate the backup by booting the backed up Virtual Machine into a sandbox and performing pre-defined or user defined tests, Perform basic recovery or backup up files or information and, if a live machine fails fail-over to the CDP replica to get back up and running with minimal data loss or if a server has had problems for some time (e.g. over a weekend) restore back in time to a previous replication.
Want to know more? Check our Veeam Backup & Replication's rich features