Offsite backup
Hello everyone,so here is my situation, I am the IT department for a small business and am in the process of creating an offsite backup. What I have right now is a 16 TB NAS WD mycloud EX4 that is...
View ArticleBackup solution needs a serious overhaul. AppAssure? Unitrends? Other?
Hello one and all from the Highlands of Scotland!I have recently taken the role of IT Manager for a growing corporate construction firm which is growing fast.I’ll give you a quick idea of the...
View ArticleOptions for replacing Datto backup system
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!We're working with a new client that's switching to us from another MSP. It's a medical practice with 10 PCs, and they'll be opening another location next year with 5-6...
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 ArticleCloud Backup Solution for SQL Server
I have looked through the old posts and did not really find the answer I was looking for. We are a small business and we currently use backup exec to back up our data to removable drives we swap out...
View ArticleRe-purposing a DATTO S5000
Are there any gurus who could let me know if it is reasonable to think I can re-use my Datto S5000 as a storage target for a Veeam backup?We have bought the S5000 and now it is becoming apparent that...
View ArticleVeeam for VM backups and ? for Physical machines?
I've inherited a Backup Exec 2012 (latest version) backup plan that was put in place by the pervious IT manger at my company. It was never working 100% the time he used it and its still not working...
View Articlewhich backup has the cheapest price for unlimited storage and file size upload?
the cheapest I found is dupplica online backup http://dupplica.comthe prices of storage are falling everywhere and I wanted to know if there is even a cheaper solution, I need to backup up all my...
View ArticleAffordable Backup and Off Site Storage for Small Business
Hi,I recently took over as IT Admin for a small business of roughly 20 users. We have a small office with two ESXi 4.1 servers running about 13 VMs (with Ubuntu 10.04 running our two main production...
View ArticleUnitrends and VMware SRM
We are currently running a Unitrends 822 with 7.4.0-6 firmware and have just recently set up VMware Site Recovery Manager. We've added our two vCenters to the Unitrends box but what I've found is we...
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 ArticleIs there a way to backup installed programs?
Hello SpiceheadsI have to replace Windows XP machines with Win 7 Pro in Server 2012 domain network.I have prepared one machine with fresh Win 7 Pro and all programs needed for user. Is there a way to...
View ArticleWhat prevents a drive from appearing in Symantec's Backup Exec?
I am still having trouble with backup exec. The SCSI drive appears fine in File Explorer and shows roughly a 50% usage (it is a Buffalo Tera Station). In Server Manager the drive shows 100% disk...
View ArticleIs Unitrends going to work for us?
I've been looking at Unitrends, and other software, for a while now after seeing a lot of praise in the community for it.We are an Outsourced IT department for a wide range of clients and we currently...
View ArticleCloning a Hard Drive
Hello,One of my users has what sounds like a dying hard drive on a Windows 7 machine. Just got the replacement drive in the email and I would like to swap the two. Any suggestions on the easiest way to...
View Articlehome personal backup
what do you guys recommend when backing up home/personal files, i would like to backup offsite, to another pc that has an external drive plugged into it. I have almost 1TB, what is out there that is...
View ArticleVeeam, Veeam Coud, DR, Amazon S3, Glacier solutions and costs
I am planning on using Veaam Backup to backup a domain controller vm and a file server vm to a Synology Nas device. But I also would like to have an offsite replica of my backups in case of fire or...
View ArticleOptimizing our backups
I am trying to figure out the best way to handle backups at my office.We have about 50GB worth of files on our file server that need backed up, as well as a couple of databases, one is about 1GB the...
View ArticleHow to Calculate the Cost of Downtime for Your Clients
Have you ever encountered customers that are skeptical about BDR? Often, clients don't fully appreciate it until they've experienced a data loss or outage. But what's the business impact of an IT...
View ArticleNext step for backups?
Hi AllWe currently have two small/medium sites with a main server on each, with a tape drive in each. The tape drives are LTO 4 and we are using CA Arcserve. The full backups are gradually creeping up...
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