R1Soft alternatives ?

leapswitch

Hello LET members,

As many of you may be facing issues due to recent R1Soft licensing / pricing changes, which paid solutions are you now moving to or considering to move to ?

We became an Acronis Cloud Backup certified partner in April and recently they have added Active Ransomware protection for Cloud backups (in beta). Acronis works across Linux/Windows and can backup everything from Servers, VMs, Workstations, Mobile Devices as well as Hyper-V, VMWare and Office 365.

The pricing is high compared to R1Soft on a per device basis, but at scale it can come down to acceptable levels and offer better performance compared to R1Soft.

Is anyone here considering Acronis ?

Ishan

akcuraw

R2Soft

jetchirag

akcuraw said: R2Soft

Why not R3Soft? It's much better

William

leapswitch said: As many of you may be facing issues due to recent R1Soft licensing / pricing changes

i'm more worried that there is still no kernel 4 support seemingly, which renders it useless for most things anyway.

DETio

Check out https://www.minio.io/

You can use it as a backup server (Object Storage), integrates easily with many development languages as well as having it's own web app for browser support.

Actually VirtEngine integrates with Minio for offering Object Storage to customers.

Damian

William said: i'm more worried that there is still no kernel 4 support seemingly, which renders it useless for most things anyway.

They've supported 4.x-series kernels since approximate middle of last year. The latest versions are not that bad (although they could be better and would benefit from a more frequent release cycle)

zafouhar

@leapswitch said:
Hello LET members,

As many of you may be facing issues due to recent R1Soft licensing / pricing changes, which paid solutions are you now moving to or considering to move to ?

We became an Acronis Cloud Backup certified partner in April and recently they have added Active Ransomware protection for Cloud backups (in beta). Acronis works across Linux/Windows and can backup everything from Servers, VMs, Workstations, Mobile Devices as well as Hyper-V, VMWare and Office 365.

The pricing is high compared to R1Soft on a per device basis, but at scale it can come down to acceptable levels and offer better performance compared to R1Soft.

Is anyone here considering Acronis ?

Ishan

I use a custom developed solution that uses rsnapshot as the backend, rsnapshot is the same as r1soft and you can easily build a frontend to it aswell as a cPanel plugin or anything else you need.

leapswitch

@zafouhar said:

I use a custom developed solution that uses rsnapshot as the backend, rsnapshot is the same as r1soft and you can easily build a frontend to it aswell as a cPanel plugin or anything else you need.

Does it work on windows and backup databases?

Clouvider

We switched to Acronis and never looked back.

doghouch

@DETio said:
Check out https://www.minio.io/

You can use it as a backup server (Object Storage), integrates easily with many development languages as well as having it's own web app for browser support.

Actually VirtEngine integrates with Minio for offering Object Storage to customers.

Your site isn't mobile friendly... can't read the details

zafouhar

@leapswitch said:

@zafouhar said:

I use a custom developed solution that uses rsnapshot as the backend, rsnapshot is the same as r1soft and you can easily build a frontend to it aswell as a cPanel plugin or anything else you need.

Does it work on windows and backup databases?

Not sure about WIndows, I never checked that to be honest

About databases, we use automysqlbackup to back those up since the servers are all Ubuntu.

Zerpy

@zafouhar said:
rsnapshot is the same as r1soft

eh?
rsnapshot is nothing like r1soft - but okay, a few differences:

• r1soft does block-based backups, where rsnapshot does file-based backups
• r1soft uses it's own custom storage format on the backup servers (disk safe), where rsnapshot stores it as an exact copy of the files - it also means no built-in compression
• r1soft does mysql backups of out the box, rsnapshot doesn't

So no - they're not the same, and will never be the same.

DETio

@doghouch said:

@DETio said:
Check out https://www.minio.io/

You can use it as a backup server (Object Storage), integrates easily with many development languages as well as having it's own web app for browser support.

Actually VirtEngine integrates with Minio for offering Object Storage to customers.

Your site isn't mobile friendly... can't read the details

If your on your mobile & wanna learn more check out http://docs.virtengine.com - it's more mobile friendly.

We'll improve the overall site shortly.

gleert

Clouvider said: We switched to Acronis and never looked back.

You mean Acronis Backup 12.5 ? I am testing it, and seems to work great...
How do you backup MySQL databases?