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This might be slightly off topic, but I am sure most of you do (or have some who does) some backups of your servers, so who better to ask? I am doing a review of our backup procedures and I am looking at different "enterprise" backup software (both open source and proprietary). I use enterprise a bit loosely because a lot of what I see that is enterprise means more servers than we have. In some respects maybe I mean midrange. Basically I would like a centralized platform for backing up all of our servers so I am not managing the backups for each server separately. We are looking to primarily to back up to disk with either cloud, tape, or remote disk for redundant off-site backups.. Anyway, what I am wondering if anyone has any particular backup software suite that they really like. While I am asking, if you have a storage device that goes with your backup solution you like, I wouldn't mind hearing about it as well. A little about our environment. We have 15-20 servers. The O/S are about equally split between RHEL, Ubuntu, and Windows. 2 of the RHRL servers have an Oracle database, most of the other Linux and Windows servers have MySQL however they do not need to be 24/7 so I could do a cold backup of the databases and thus do not require hot database backups. Total storage s about 4TB right now but likely to double in the next 3 years, Edward