I Need A New Backup Product!

Hello,

My organization is a smaller state agency, having about 500 users and about 40 Windows servers. We own 5 Acronis True Image/Backup Recovery licenses for our most critical application servers. I love the Acronis imaging, it works great and I hope to continue to use it.

Since we are a smaller agency, we don't have a remote site to synchronizes data for disaster recovery reasons. We're pretty much contained at one location. Our disaster recovery policy is such that we have 3 days to recover our critical services. Therefore, we have been using Syncsort Backup Express to back our data up to tape. The tapes are sent offsite daily for disaster recovery. This had been a common practice for most IT departments. Syncsort works well, I have no complaints, other than we don't have a Bare Metal Recovery license for it. We have a need to FULLY backup our servers to tape. At the present time, I am using file level backups to tape and then using Acronis for the most critical server. I take a nightly image and then those images go to tape.

We just recieved a quote for the Bare Metal options for Syncsort and it's crazy expensive. They are also going in the backup to disk at a remote location directon. So I want to look at different products as a replacement. Can the Acronis Advanced Backup and Recovery meet my needs? Can we use Acronis to backup our images and data volumes directly to tape? We have a Spectra Logic T50e w/ 2 tape drives.

Basically this whole post is asking: Can I use Acronis to backup my servers and files directly to tape without having an additional tape backup software component?

If it cannot, I will continue to use Acronis the way I am. Time is tight and I don't want to have meetings, get quotes, do all the sales stuff if Acronis cannot do this one thing.

Thanks for reading this long Post!

Todd R