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  • 1.  Altiris Recovery Solution - coming back???

    Posted Jun 25, 2018 03:16 PM

    So i was googling for an issue on VSR and somehow I got to a page and cant find the article now... but it was talking about a rumor that Symantec Recovery Solution maybe coming back?

    Cant find the link i was on and curious if anyone else have heard the same?
    ​We used to have all of our machines on Altiris RS and it was great. Dedupe, folder exclusion, file type exclusion... it was ever so sweet. Once Symantec bought Altiris, they EOL'd it and SSR was not as good.
    ​We took our license count from 4000 down to 1000 and use 25ish now... thought of ditching the last of the licenses but with this possible news, has our hopes up.

    ​We attended a conference and it was about big data. When we said we dont care about the data, peoples faces dropped and gave that blank stare. We were like... we have machines where the vendor is out of business and we need to recover from a drive failure. We have a process to get data off and dont care about it...

    ​SSR is based off of the hostname.v2i and RS was just plain ole .blob files...

    Fingers crossed...



  • 2.  RE: Altiris Recovery Solution - coming back???

    Posted Jun 28, 2018 09:46 AM

    Where did you initially here about this? A big data conference?



  • 3.  RE: Altiris Recovery Solution - coming back???

    Posted Jul 02, 2018 12:53 PM

    like i said i cant find where... but i was excited to see it. I had it on my screen and during one of my meetings, I showed my team and they were excited. I closed the window. I have asked them if they remember what site or if they had the link and they do not have any info.

    I just hope its true and was throwing this up here to see if anyone else has seen anything on it. It was light years ahead of what is now being used...

    the entire folder exclude, file type exclude and deduplication was awesome in RS and hoping that some day it would come back.