Alternatives

Let's see now...

CommVault has good reports from a few people, but has a high price tag, and so far quite annoying sales processes (I hate any product you can't just try without asking nicely, agreeing to countless phone calls etc). Just give me the product, and I'll let you know if it's worth continuing discussions.

ArcServe - if hell is frozen over I guess, given it's supposedly "really good" at backups but just not good at bringing them back again when it matters (you know, the point of backing up...). Mind you that's not exactly Backup Exec's strength (mainly because you never get a backup to try restoring from anyhow)

Yosemite - never used it, but it seems to meet the "what it can do" on paper (like Backup Exec then).

Perhaps tin can, string and a 56k modem would help. We could TFTP the files around.