Symantec Backup Exec - Windows Server 2012 Support
I'm finding this absolutely hard to believe, but from everything I'm reading, Symantec Backup Exec still doesn't support Windows Server 2012? I just got done migrating about 2TB's worth of data to a...
View ArticleAppAssure - any happy users in Spice land?
We are seriously considering AppAssure and I have gone as far as setting up two core servers as a POC between two of our locations and have had success backing up VM's between the two locations and...
View ArticleExperience with Dell PowerVault RD1000 Removable Disk Storage?
I am looking in to a new backup solution for my Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-v host machine and a few VMs that we have. We have used tape drives in the past (prior to virtualization) but came across...
View ArticleInstalling DPM 2010 Error
I recently had a bad hard drive on my DPM Server and I needed to reinstall the OS. It has Windows 2008 Standard R2. The problem is when I try to install DPM, it goes through all the stages but at the...
View ArticleCountdown to v7 continues - Backup from Storage Snapshots
All of us are very excited about the upcoming release of Veeam Backup & Replication v7 and we hope plenty of you are too. Check out this new blog post by Doug Hazelman, VP of Product Strategy and...
View Articlesending Alerts as an SMS for service / server down status
hi ,is it possible to send SMS to mobile phones in case server's service, or other status go offline or online....
View ArticleIncremental Backup disproportionally large
Hi all, I currently have a backup regime that I have inherited that backs up on a nightly basis to tape using BE 2010 R2, out weekly full backup is around 1.15 TB of data however our nightly...
View ArticleWhat cloud based backup options are out there for SMB's
I see there are some older discussions but what is currently "out there" for backup solutions in the SMB sector. We currently do local backups to 4 servers. That is 2 DC's, one MDaemon mail server and...
View ArticleUnitrends 7.1 Software Released
Some awesome new functionality. Here's the highlights, check out the release notes for the full scoop. http://www.unitrends.com/documents/release-notes.pdf• Extended the VMware SAN‐direct backup...
View ArticleHappy Monday, Backups Suck Edition...
I spent most of the day Friday fine tuning my new Unitrends Enterprise Backup System, getting all of the servers registered and creating our exclusion list and backup selections and schedules. I was...
View ArticleFirewalled servers
Hello, My first post on Spiceworks, so please be gentle :) I'm having a play with UEB 7.1 on Vmware ESXi 5.1 using the free 1tb license. In the live environment my backup device would be behind a...
View Article2.5 TB data and weekly full backup
Currently I am using the $50 Backup4all software and an old NAS box to backup my data over a gigabit LAN. A Windows PC, installed with Backup4all software runs 1 full backup and then daily incremental...
View ArticleVeam Vs StorageCraft Shadow Protect
Hello, I have an environment of 3 sites. Main site has 4 Hyper-V Vm's (2008) 5 Physical Windows Server 2008 machines Second location has 2 Physical Servers Third Location has 2 Hyper-V Vm's and 1...
View ArticleInstalling your own certificate on a Unitrends box
I am curious. I am looking to install a different certificate for a Unitrends DPU than the one that comes with it to prevent the certificate error that always pops up. Any help is greatly appreciated....
View ArticleWindows Server 2008R2 Server Backup Sufficient enough for a Small School?
Hi Spice People, I just started work for a small school of about 200 students and will double in a year or two. This school is a new school and is freshly setup there have been a few techs here to...
View ArticleStarting to second guess my decision to purchase Unitrends :(
First let me say until last week I've been fairly happy with Unitrends support but not right now. Maybe the 7.1 released overwhelmed the support team I don't know and frankly it's not my problem. So...
View ArticleDATTO backup solution What do you think?
Hey guys i wanted some input about a company called Datto. They have a solution like unitrends and we are trying to figure out what to go with. I know many people here support Unitrends but has anyone...
View ArticleCorporate Backup To Network Share for OSX
We currently have a single OSX device on or network that our Marketing team use for graphic design etc, I'm curious what the good people of spiceworks use to backup their own OSX workstations to...
View ArticleShould I backup Backup Exec Catalogs to Tape
Hi guys, just wondering what the best practices for Backup Exec catalogs are. I have a 300GB volume from my Netapp connected to my Backup Exec 2012 server via iSCSI. Was wondering whether i should be...
View ArticleLarge iscsi drive and Volume Shadow Copy
We currently have a 4tb iscsi volume connected to a Windows SBS 2011 server. We've dropped in some more drives and wanted to expand that volume, but somebody told me that if we make the volume larger...
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