What type of environment is server-free backup best suited for?
The best way to do any backup is the simplest way to do that backup. Complexity brings, well, complexity. But, along with complexity comes cost and risk that things could go wrong. So, server-free backup is more complicated than other forms of backup. Therefore, it should only be used when it is really necessary. The types of environments that tend to move toward server-free are environments that have a very large data set behind an individual server. Very large is relative, but we’re definitely using the word terabyte in a plural sense at this point, and the load on that individual server is too much. So, you want to move that I/O load off the server and onto something else — either a dedicated server or the disk hardware itself. What are the drawbacks of server-free backup? There is inevitably going to be a license involved. Server-free backup is a complex thing from a coding perspective, so that is going to come along with cost when you purchase the license. The dedicated server or
