thanks for trying insync.

the v2.2 would be available on the website in a day or so

Have been using BackuExec DLO for some time.

New features in v2.2 seem to resolve issues I already have. When are we likely to see this so we can test it?

The new reporting mechanism is basically streamlining the current reporting process into something we can expand on fairly easily. For starters, we now have an idea of alerts and notifications. We have classified alerts into different levels of severity. This allows us to handle notifications and behavior with more fine-grained control. With subsequent releases, we hope to fine-tune this and allow more user control with the whole notification and reporting engine.

W.r.t Mac support, it’s definitely in the pipeline. But I can’t commit on a date for that.

-Faisal

Can you please elaborate on new reporting ?

Mac support ?

What is the max. scalability of v2.2 on single backup server (4-core machine, 4 GB RAM) ? Can it take load for 500+ ?

This happens even now, profile changes are automatically pushed/applied to the client when the client requests a new backup.

inSync is a client triggered backup architecture, where client always initiates all requests. So, before any new backup request, the client downloads and updates any new profile changes.

The client triggered architecture has various advantages –
1. Backup over WAN/Internet (where client doesn’t have visible IP)
2. Secure – server never initiates a out-bound request.
3. Scalable – backup intelligence is embedded into the client and hence load is distributed.

I hope this information helped.

- Jas

If I need to add a new folder to the backup right away, I need to make the changes and then generate a new key for every user. Then update the key on every laptop.

This is ok for a small office but I have over 40 laptops in 5 different countries getting this done very quickly is almost impossible.

If the update could get propagated to the user automatically that would make management and deployment so much simpler.

We are planning a controlled beta for Linux, tentatively by Oct 15. Keep watching the blog space.

Beta is not planned for 2.2. We’ll certainly have it for 3.0.

Linux backup should have big market here in europe.

v2.2 seems like a big release. Is there a beta for 2.2 or 3.0 ?