DevOps Director at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
Real User
Top 20
2023-05-16T16:49:00Z
May 16, 2023
We have been using the product for backups and long-term storage. We had been using physical tape backups for many years. It became harder to get those tapes to successfully complete and also get access to the data center to swap out the tapes. With the VTL, we have seen our success rate increase to 100%. We are now also able to direct the virtual tapes onto cheap storage and send them to multiple different sites. Finally, we can even replicate the backup tapes without the need to run the job again by using the built-in functions of the SAN.
Senior Systems Administrator at Prism Economics & Analysis
Real User
2020-11-18T02:05:00Z
Nov 18, 2020
We were looking for physical tape backups to protect against DR situations but were concerned about the fact that it would require manual intervention, with respect to the changing of tapes and sending them offsite. This is something that we could easily forget. Luckily, I came across Starwind VTL. This product is the same as having a physical tape library without the hassle of changing tapes. The whole process is automated and we have the option of choosing between multiple cloud storage providers such as Amazon, Wasabi, Azure, etc. It's been six months and it has been working well without any issue. The jobs are completed within 24 hours, which meets our RTO. In regards to the cost, we ended up saving a few thousand dollars as well, due to the high cost of the physical tape library.
Works at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Real User
2019-10-24T19:28:00Z
Oct 24, 2019
We currently use Veeam as our backup solution and wanted to save some backups to Backblaze. StarWind VTL allowed us to keep using Veeam and Backblaze for an easy and affordable solution to our backups. The software has excellent performance, and it is straightforward to set up given the extensive tutorials hosted on their website, online help, and remote assistance from the beginning, all for free with no initial costs involved.
Chief Technology Officer, Founder | We Help SMB Businesses Leverage Technology & Reduce Risk at Neuron Computer Services, LLC
Consultant
2019-01-22T19:58:00Z
Jan 22, 2019
Our objective for using StarWind's VTL to Backblaze B2 was to get away from sneakernet backups of Veeam data for offsite storage and archiving. We have approximately 20TB of data that needs to be backed up on a GFS schedule. We're able to do this with StarWind's VTL to Backblaze B2 app very easily.
What is software-defined storage? Software-defined storage (SDS) is a software-based storage solution that provides greater flexibility and independence than the traditional network-attached storage (NAS) or storage area network (SAN). Although software-defined storage can work in and on top of both NAS and SAN environments, it is usually created to perform on the industry common x86 servers.
Software-defined storage allows for separation and independence from traditional hardware...
We have been using the product for backups and long-term storage. We had been using physical tape backups for many years. It became harder to get those tapes to successfully complete and also get access to the data center to swap out the tapes. With the VTL, we have seen our success rate increase to 100%. We are now also able to direct the virtual tapes onto cheap storage and send them to multiple different sites. Finally, we can even replicate the backup tapes without the need to run the job again by using the built-in functions of the SAN.
We use StarWind Virtual Tape Library as a high-capacity storage system.
We were looking for physical tape backups to protect against DR situations but were concerned about the fact that it would require manual intervention, with respect to the changing of tapes and sending them offsite. This is something that we could easily forget. Luckily, I came across Starwind VTL. This product is the same as having a physical tape library without the hassle of changing tapes. The whole process is automated and we have the option of choosing between multiple cloud storage providers such as Amazon, Wasabi, Azure, etc. It's been six months and it has been working well without any issue. The jobs are completed within 24 hours, which meets our RTO. In regards to the cost, we ended up saving a few thousand dollars as well, due to the high cost of the physical tape library.
We currently use Veeam as our backup solution and wanted to save some backups to Backblaze. StarWind VTL allowed us to keep using Veeam and Backblaze for an easy and affordable solution to our backups. The software has excellent performance, and it is straightforward to set up given the extensive tutorials hosted on their website, online help, and remote assistance from the beginning, all for free with no initial costs involved.
Our objective for using StarWind's VTL to Backblaze B2 was to get away from sneakernet backups of Veeam data for offsite storage and archiving. We have approximately 20TB of data that needs to be backed up on a GFS schedule. We're able to do this with StarWind's VTL to Backblaze B2 app very easily.