Re: [SLUG] Is Arkeia Worth $0?

[Rick Welykochy <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've gotta backup Jason on his observations. Our company
made the Arkeia mistake. 

(*) constant Windows --> Linux backup problems (never resolved)

(*) they "lost" our licencing info and demanded more $$$ for
    help

(*) we never found the system reliable

(*) lose your backup registry/directory and you are stuffed

-rickw



jasonb@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
 
> They should be pay you to use it.
> 
> We ran arkeia for 6 months and found it continually failed backups
> (sometimes for weeks at a time) without notifying the operator of the
> failed status.
> 
> The usual cause of this - if a Linux machine was offline for some reason,
> arkeia assumed it was a windows box and refused to run the backups as we
> didn't have any windows licences!
> 
> My suggestion - avoid it.  While the product has lots of potential the
> reliability has been compromised in order to maintain revenue through
> licencing. (oh - and knox will forget you are licenced if you have
> any problems and expect you to pay again.)
> 
> I have a 15 linux system licence sitting here unused if anybody want's to
> buy it (probably not legally transferable though.)
> 
> Cheers
> Jason.


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Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Pty Limited