What RAID level do you use for client backup storage?
What RAID level do you use for your client backups and why? Are you happy with it?
View ArticleBackup Solution for physical machines
My office is looking at moving off of Backup Exec 2010 with a Tape Library to another software vendor and a hard disk array (likely a SAN). We backup about ~30TB a month (this is for full backups -...
View ArticleWhat is the best backup NAS solution for a virtual server with 2 guest VMs?
I am setting up a virtual server (ESXi 5.5) with two guest VMs. One VM will be a DC and the second an app server. I would like to know the best way to regularly backup these servers. I am was thinking...
View ArticleIncremental Forever Backup Solutions
I''ve been looking for a while to find a new backup solution for our company, but not making too much headway. I have vayious questions hopefully people might have some thoughts on.BackgroundCurrenly...
View ArticleBackup Exec 2012 R3 Driving me Coo Coo! Have to restart for BU
Ok, I have applied all Liveupdates, Windows updates, SP4 for the program.It will backup ONE time, then all jobs are stuck in QUE upon start. Restart the server.. the backups RUN!What is going on?
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 ArticleBackup Exec 2012 to 2014 update discussion thread
Hi all,Our BE2012 installation has always been a little flaky (jobs randomly putting themselves on hold, NDMP backup fails, continually having to recreate jobs etc) and as we have the option I'm...
View ArticleExchange backups with Veeam
Hello Spiceworks people!!Right now, we backup up our entire virtual server system (12 VMs) every night. My questions is this: Should we back up exchange multiple times during the day? To me, this...
View Articleveeam Backup v7 R2 fails
Hi,I have a serious problem with Veeam Backup v7 R2. I am trying to copy two VMs from one environment but veeam vmware 4.0 gives me the following error:Error: Client error: VDDK error:...
View ArticleIssue when i formating the Tape
Good afternoonI have the AC ARC server backup ver 16.0, my problem is when i try to format one tape, this display a message "Device <1> format failed!, NO DATA DETECTED", I changed the tape...
View ArticleSynology Backup To 2nd Unit Offsite
Hey guys first time post in Spiceworks so I hope this is OK. My question is this. I set-up a Synology DS412+ unit with 4 drives and need to create an offsite backup solution. I had it working in a...
View ArticleReset Unitrends Virtual Appliance Storage
While testing the Free Version of Unitrends Virtual Appliance, I was using the internal storage on a dev esxi box. The storage was 3 seperate 1TB drives. No raid.Now I'm looking to use Unitrends full...
View Article[How To] Clone a drive from WiFi controller
Hi guys,I had a Procurve MSM760 WiFi (J9421A) controller take a dump on me. Went and purchased a replacement controller and restored config files from backup. All working great.The bad controller it...
View ArticleNetworked Backup Solution
Hi all! I am looking for some backup software that will backup a client's server and several client machines preferably through the network. Anything out there that you recommend? This is a Small...
View ArticleNAS or HP MicroServer running 2012 R2?
Before too long I am looking to either buy a NAS or HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen 8 (Windows Server 2012 R2) to use for backups. I already have an HP ProLiant ML350 G5 (Windows Server 2008 R2) running my...
View ArticleBackup Exec 2014 - Thoughts?
So Backup Exec 2014 has been out a couple of weeks now and just wondered if anyone is using it and how they find it?I am stuck on 2010 at the moment as I found out the hard way I couldn't migate my BE...
View ArticleHow to duplicate backup data to a secondary location in VEEAM?
Using a post backup job....I've got Backup Exec set to copy weekly full backups over to another server in a different location for disaster recovery in case our Exagrid goes belly up or if the server...
View ArticleWorkstation Backup
We are a small company. We have 4 buildings, three of which I have control over. We have 45 users/laptops in the 3 buildings I control. We are currently using jungledisk for backup of each user's...
View ArticleCloud Backup
I was doing some research today and came across this softwarehttp://www.cloudbacko.com/Has anyone heard of it? It appears to be a very new kid on the block, but seems to promise a great deal. George
View ArticleSchedule an auto backup
Hi,I have recently moved Spiceoworks to a new server. Try to schedule backup but it keeps saying the directory (a network drive) I entered doesn't exist (it does of course) and ask if I want to create...
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