Being an IT Professional, it is very important task
to know about backup solutions for our daily data on Servers. In case of
Windows Servers and file level backup we have many options which we will
discuss here. First, I would recommend System State Backups (For Physical
Servers) as it is free from Microsoft and off course a useful tool.
The other important thing is if you
need to find out how you want to take backups? If disk, in disk-based systems you
can have very useful features such as Shadow Copies (on Windows), deduplication
(NAS), these can make even just simple backups (e.g. robocopy batch routines,
or a pure file-based backup product like SyncBackSE) into highly powered
backups.
Here is the list of backup software
with little description. You can choose one according to your requirements.
1)
Cloudberry
– is good for file backups you can configure scheduled backups of essential
data to a local device as well as to cloud i.e AWS and Azure in limited budget.
It is inexpensive and support Virtual Shadow Copy (VSS) and image level backup
2)
Commvault
- It is useful for individual files and folders to backups. Data is protected
by installing agent software on the physical or virtual machines. It is
enterprise level data platform that contains modules to backup, restore,
archive, replicate and search data. You can access data via browsers
3)
Veaam – It is
good and excellent. In low budget using Veeam end point protection it's free but
it's application aware however you can backup schedules for files. Otherwise
use Veeam cloud connect which will allow you to backup to disk and is
application aware. Veeam is a good backup solution for Windows Servers. Its new
version has agents for physicals which makes it a complete backup solution. Veeam
backup and replication is good for the File Level backup.
Veeam
is also excellent for backup and items-recovery such as Exchange and SQL
databases. A solution like Veeam backup & replication should be enough to
cover all your needs from files /database or even full disk or snapshot
backups, it usually also fits nicely with highly virtualized environments
4)
AWS – you can
use AWS storage services for data protection.
5)
TSM – an
enterprise level backup and archiving software by IBM TSM (IBM Tivoli Storage Manager)
used to protect against data loss.
6)
Rapid Recovery
– by Quest is another backup software which can take backups from physical,
virtual or easily connect to cloud. You can monitor and manage your environment
in multiple site. With Rapid Recovery other capabilities included are cloud
backup, SQL Server, Exchange Server and Virtual Servers.
7) BackupExec – backup and recovery solution for virtual, physical and
cloud by Varitas. Supported platforms are VMWare and Hyper-V virtualization,
Windows and Linux Operating Systems, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google cloud
storage.
8)
Carbonite
– provides Evault option with many other options for backup servers, Data
Center and endpoints data. It is useful in file level backups.
9)
Crashplan
– available for personal and small business data by code42 for files to backup.
10)
StorageCraft ShadowProtect
- is a great solution. You can get the benefits including Image-based backup
and the ability to recover at a file level too. On premise and variety of cloud
options. It also provides backup and disaster recovery, data protection, and
managed system migration for Windows systems -on virtual and physical machines.
Recover systems, applications, and data to the same or different hardware or virtual
environment.
11)
Datto Devices
– which do block level backups and allow for bare metal restores as well as
differential backups and restores. It also provides replication to cloud
according to schedules
12)
Microsoft
Azure Backup Service – takes backup at System State level as well as
Bare-metal level. You can take backups of File Data, Sharepoint data, Hyper-V,
SQL and Exchange Server.
13)
BackupPC
– is a free disk to disk backup software having web-based front end which is
user friendly. It also gives facility of cross platform including Linux,
Solaris etc. It works well backing up windows system states.
14)
Unitrends
– offers series of products for Physical and Virtual Servers including Hyper-V,
VMWare and XenServer.
15)
Yosemite Server Backup
– is cross platform software by Barracuda Networks is useful for Server
Backups. It can backup of Microsoft Active Directory, MS Exchange and MS SQL
Server.
16)
Arcserve – is also a
good option for backup of your servers
17)
Acronis – Acronis saves
backup files in TIB format which allows you to view the folder structure
directly. Only open the TIB and find what you need. It also has cloud space
available. The interface is user friendly.
18)
Comodo Backup
– gives you free 10GB online storage account.
19)
Macrium Reflect
– is a backup and disk imaging software program for Microsoft Windows.
20)
Iperius – it allows
automatic backups of files and folders on devices i.e external USB, Hard Drives,
NAS, Cloud storage and FTP Backup. It is good for windows.
21)
Vembu BDR Suite
– is a user-friendly backup and disaster recovery platform without
complications. It offers backup for Physical and Virtual environments.
22)
Retrospect –
it can take backup of computers running Microsoft, Linux and MacOS.
23)
DPM 2016 Enterprise
– Data Protection Manager is by Microsoft System Center and its application
aware backup including SQL Server, Exchange, Sharepoint and Hyper-V.
24)
vRanger – simple wizard-based
installation and auto-discovery tool to locate both VMware and Hyper-V assets.
25)
Easeus – offers data
recovery software, backup and recovery software, partition manager and PC utility
software to recover data.
