Backup software and backup monitoring strategy clarification?

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On your channel over the years you have reviewed a number of backup products, msp360, ninjaone backup, truenas, xcp-ng, etc. I would like to know generally what you are actually deploying and under what general circumstances. I think you said you are actually using ninjaone backup right? Are you using msp360 at all? Do you use ninjaone backup mostly for the sort of low end stuff purely cloud backups of workstations? Or do you also use it for servers, perhaps only servers without xcp-ng? Are most of your clients with on-prem servers running xcp-ng? Of those xcp-ng servers do you rely on that, and not something else in addition for backups? How common is truenas at your business? How do you handle monitoring them?

Basically Iā€™m wanting to know more about how you treat these products from an operations perspective.

Thanks

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The way things are here today.

Lawrence Systems Managed Monitored Contract Clients:

  • MSP360 is used managing & monitoring the backups
  • TrueNAS is frequently used as a NAS and can also be a local storage target
  • Synology is frequently used as a NAS and can also be a local storage target
  • XCP-NG is used & XO Backups are just an extra local layer.

Lawrence Systems Consulting & Not Managed or Monitored By US Backups:

  • A variety of backups tools that clients prefer are used
  • TrueNAS is frequently used as a NAS and can also be a local storage target
  • Synology is frequently used as a NAS and can also be a local storage target
  • Synology Active Backups
  • XCP-NG is used & XO Backups are setup for clients.
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Ok thanks that makes sense.