Catalogic vProtect for KVM

scottalanmiller

Has anyone looked at Catalogic vProtect for KVM workloads? I've never used it, but it seems to have a broad agentless backup option that seems nice. Anyone know of how well it works or what it costs?

DustinB3403

It sounds a lot like Xen Orchestra

scottalanmiller

So we talked to them and they had to wait half a day to find a person that we could talk to. When they finally got us someone they couldn't tell us about the product or about pricing. So.... won't be looking into this any further.

scottalanmiller

Found this script. Just a script, but seems better than an abandoned product from a company that isn't even sure that they make it.

https://www.virtkick.com/docs/how-to-perform-a-live-backup-on-your-kvm-virtual-machines.html

CCWTech

@scottalanmiller said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

So we talked to them and they had to wait half a day to find a person that we could talk to. When they finally got us someone they couldn't tell us about the product or about pricing. So.... won't be looking into this any further.

The guy I talked to said that the product manager was on the East Coast and had gone for the day but was going to call the manager on his cell to make sure he calls me tomorrow afternoon.

scottalanmiller

@CCWTech said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

@scottalanmiller said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

So we talked to them and they had to wait half a day to find a person that we could talk to. When they finally got us someone they couldn't tell us about the product or about pricing. So.... won't be looking into this any further.

The guy I talked to said that the product manager was on the East Coast and had gone for the day but was going to call the manager on his cell to make sure he calls me tomorrow afternoon.

Seems like more than one person in the company should know about the product.

scottalanmiller

Maybe someone needs to read the website tonight and bone up on what it does so that they can tell us about it tomorrow

CCWTech

@scottalanmiller said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

@CCWTech said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

@scottalanmiller said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

So we talked to them and they had to wait half a day to find a person that we could talk to. When they finally got us someone they couldn't tell us about the product or about pricing. So.... won't be looking into this any further.

The guy I talked to said that the product manager was on the East Coast and had gone for the day but was going to call the manager on his cell to make sure he calls me tomorrow afternoon.

Seems like more than one person in the company should know about the product.

Yeah, not a great experience so far. We'll see.

scottalanmiller

@CCWTech said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

@scottalanmiller said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

@CCWTech said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

@scottalanmiller said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

So we talked to them and they had to wait half a day to find a person that we could talk to. When they finally got us someone they couldn't tell us about the product or about pricing. So.... won't be looking into this any further.

The guy I talked to said that the product manager was on the East Coast and had gone for the day but was going to call the manager on his cell to make sure he calls me tomorrow afternoon.

Seems like more than one person in the company should know about the product.

Yeah, not a great experience so far. We'll see.

They don't put their price on their website and tell you to call in to fine out. So we do, first person knows nothing, gets someone to call us back, and that person also doesn't know what it costs. Like... seriously? It makes me think that they haven't sold any yet and they are waiting to get an interested customer to start the process of pricing it.

How can you go through this much effort and not even be able to be told a price!!

CCWTech

@scottalanmiller said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

@CCWTech said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

@scottalanmiller said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

@CCWTech said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

@scottalanmiller said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

So we talked to them and they had to wait half a day to find a person that we could talk to. When they finally got us someone they couldn't tell us about the product or about pricing. So.... won't be looking into this any further.

The guy I talked to said that the product manager was on the East Coast and had gone for the day but was going to call the manager on his cell to make sure he calls me tomorrow afternoon.

Seems like more than one person in the company should know about the product.

Yeah, not a great experience so far. We'll see.

They don't put their price on their website and tell you to call in to fine out. So we do, first person knows nothing, gets someone to call us back, and that person also doesn't know what it costs. Like... seriously? It makes me think that they haven't sold any yet and they are waiting to get an interested customer to start the process of pricing it.

How can you go through this much effort and not even be able to be told a price!!

And if you call the sales number it goes to a voicemail that is full.

scottalanmiller

@CCWTech LOL. I forgot about that.

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

Found this script. Just a script, but seems better than an abandoned product from a company that isn't even sure that they make it.

https://www.virtkick.com/docs/how-to-perform-a-live-backup-on-your-kvm-virtual-machines.html

I wrote one on here a couple of years ago.

stacksofplates

For reference it's here: https://mangolassi.it/topic/12537/kvm-snapshot-backup-script

scottalanmiller

@stacksofplates said in Catalogic vProtect for KVM:

For reference it's here: https://mangolassi.it/topic/12537/kvm-snapshot-backup-script

Awesome, thanks.

warren.stanley

@scottalanmiller @CCWTech - chiming in late... I inquired a couple of years back (a few perhaps ). They were just "Storware" then. From vague memory it was expensive and didn't inspire confidence. I ended up staying on Windows Server, utilising Hyper-V and Veeam.

Would be really interesting to see if they reinvigorate efforts for this product, at a realistic price (cough significantMLdiscountsforeveryone cough). Looks like they could use some marketing and increased product awareness out into the tech community.