My business partners and I recently made the decision to add another server to our existing network to serve as an off-rack, dedicated backup server.
This wasn’t an easy decision for me because I had already grown pretty attached to our disksync synchronization service that we were leasing from The Planet but at the end of the day I was pretty impressed with R1Soft’s product, especially after listening to an interview on The Web Hosting Show that aired a little while back.
Our server admin, Matt, spent a little more time researching the product than I did and he was also pretty impressed with the product. For Matt to be impressed was enough for me! Just a little bit about the new solution that we are running for those of you that are interested in the technical aspects of R1Soft’s product:
R1Soft offers the only Continuous Data Protection solution for Linux Server backups. R1Soft is a solution that enables disk-based data protection, Linux disaster recovery, and Bare-Metal Restore for servers and workstations running Linux and Windows systems. The software is the first high performance backup and restore product for MySQL and the only software to offer True Granular Restore™ for MySQL.
To learn more: R1Soft- Continuous Data Protection (CDP), Linux Disaster Recovery, and Server Backups for Linux and Windows
Our company uses this software on 200+ linux servers and about a half dozen workstations in our office. We use it in conjunction with a network boot to do automated recovery of failed systems. I spent a lot of time reviewing linux backup solutions and this is one of the better ones, especially for bare metal recovery.
I know about the flame war over at WHT. I think if you use the service as advertised, it works well.