Anyone have any experience with either of these? Thoughts on them?

Hello,

I have extensive experience with both technologies as we utilize both. Ahsay is great for home users and businesses with larger files and slower links. R1Soft shines on platforms which have very high file counts. Ahsay is a file-level backup which makes file count important. R1Soft is a sector-level backup solution which reads at the disk level (totally ignoring file counts at backup time). R1Soft is the best choice for web hosting backups. Ahsay is a great choice for off-site backups of corporations, small businesses and home users.

Hopefully that gave you a little insight into the difference of the two pieces of software.

Please ask more if you'd like explanations on the info above.

Thanks!

The problem I have with R1Soft is that it requires, at least last time I tried a public ip for each unit it backs up so that R1Soft must point to the individual backup unit. Ahsay does not so machines inside a network using NAT can just point to the backup server.

Not sure if they found a work around.

Also, R1soft doesn't support exchange 2007.

Not sure if these have been changed or fixed in the recent version.

Hello,

R1Soft now allows you to choose a port for each server. I guess you could NAT a different port for each server. This would allow the configuration you're looking for.

R1Soft seems to be built primarily around Linux (which is just fine by me :-)) so it probably doesn't support Exchange directly.

Ahsay supports Exchange out of the box. As well as 2007 brick-level backups.

I have licenses for both if you'd like to test drive the software.

Thanks!

Greetings:

We've been using r1soft.com since late summer 2007 with success.

We are currently backing up several Windows 200x and Linux servers; and everything works well.

Thank you.

R1soft is pretty nice, I tried it out for a few months. If you'd like an open source solution, Bacula works extremely well. I recently deployed it in a tape backup deployment and it works like a charm. Of course, you don't have to use Tapes for Bacula to work, you can also backup to a server, DVD, or any other medium under the sun. :P

Hello,

R1Soft now allows you to choose a port for each server. I guess you could NAT a different port for each server. This would allow the configuration you're looking for.

R1Soft seems to be built primarily around Linux (which is just fine by me :-)) so it probably doesn't support Exchange directly.

Ahsay supports Exchange out of the box. As well as 2007 brick-level backups.

I have licenses for both if you'd like to test drive the software.

Thanks!

Do you also have any experience with Vembu's StorGrid product? I've thought about setting up a client backup service with either Ahsay or StorGrid.

Hello,

I have extensive experience with both technologies as we utilize both. Ahsay is great for home users and businesses with larger files and slower links. R1Soft shines on platforms which have very high file counts. Ahsay is a file-level backup which makes file count important. R1Soft is a sector-level backup solution which reads at the disk level (totally ignoring file counts at backup time). R1Soft is the best choice for web hosting backups. Ahsay is a great choice for off-site backups of corporations, small businesses and home users.

Hopefully that gave you a little insight into the difference of the two pieces of software.

Please ask more if you'd like explanations on the info above.

Thanks!


Can I ask your opinion :

Need to backup 30 windows servers. Mostly just basic IIS servers and 3-4 MS-SQL servers. 5 Linux Servers.

What is the best solution? R1Soft is better for Linux, windows support is there but not very good...yet. R1Soft is the obvious choice when dealing with Linux and control panels. (Cpanel plugin and so forth) But windows servers?

I need the most stable and easy to use product. R1Soft scares me a little but Ahsay seems very mature, stable and well designed.

Can I ask your opinion :

Need to backup 30 windows servers. Mostly just basic IIS servers and 3-4 MS-SQL servers. 5 Linux Servers.

What is the best solution? R1Soft is better for Linux, windows support is there but not very good...yet. R1Soft is the obvious choice when dealing with Linux and control panels. (Cpanel plugin and so forth) But windows servers?

I need the most stable and easy to use product. R1Soft scares me a little but Ahsay seems very mature, stable and well designed.

Try the open-source backup system "Bacula". Its a rock-solid backup solution that is 100% free and works great under Windows.