Best Way to Clone an XP Drive
Hi All,I have a Dell XP desktop running software that is critical but not available anymore. I can purchase the same Western Digital drive as in the Dell system along with as external USB cabinet....
View ArticleCheapest way to go for home backup to the cloud?
I'm looking into backing up my 250+ GB of pictures (love that RAW) to the cloud, but I can't seem to find any good alternatives at the moment. What would you guys suggest? I need it to be cheap and...
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 ArticleMozy Pro Server Backup Installer failure
Hi AllI have Mozy Pro Server Backup installed on my windows server and it back ups fine. The Issue is that I am trying to move the installation to another server but everytime I download the installer...
View ArticleUnitrends : How fast is it?
Trying to get a gauge on how long it takes everyone to back up their data using the Unitrends Enterprise Backup. Our hyper-v host sever that is running the UEB appliance is a quad core xeon E5-2407 (4...
View ArticleBye bye Commvault, Hello Unitrends
Anyone interested in following our change from Commvault to Unitrends are more than welcome to ask questions and follow are migration. We have been using Commvault as our main back up suite for all...
View ArticleTape Backup Software Recommendations?
We are looking for some Tape Backup Software. The cheaper the better.
View ArticleGrowing Frustration with Unitrends
I really need to share my experience with the two Unitrends 813 appliances I have had now for about 4 months.I've had high hopes for these appliances and I still expect them to eventually be as...
View ArticleBackup Exec 2014-the automated credentials test failed for the following server
Getting close to running my first BE 2014 in production but have a couple of niggles which I'll put into two different posts.On this site the backup is done to 1TB USB disks changed daily. Seems to be...
View ArticleBackup Exec 2014 - Media Error - The disk is offline
Backupexec 2014 utilising external USB drives as backup target. Each day the current drive is removed and a new one is inserted (from a pool of 5).Each day a random or couple of random usb drives that...
View ArticleCheap Backup Solution Recommendations
We're looking to upgrade from a 4TB/8TB(compressed) Barracuda appliance since it's near capacity. I'm told the larger Barracuda appliance is too costly. I looked at Unitrends since it gets such rave...
View ArticleSymantec BU Exec 2014 - Event ID 33808 - Cannot create B2D
I upgraded a working Backup Exec 2012 install to 2014. Since I upgraded I cannot add a new Backup to Disk storage. When I go through the prompts, and press Finish is brings up an error dialog box that...
View ArticleCreating a Ghost Boot Disk for Dell T5500
I've been trying to create both a PC-DOS and Windows PE boot disk to pull an image from our T5500s, and I've had no success. None of the drivers from Dell seem to work, and the universal drivers do not...
View ArticleAWS EC2 Backup
So, I'm looking at a project to build a backup system in our AWS VPC to backup files and SQL DBs. I'd like to use S3 storage to reduce storage costs, but local drives on the BU server is fine too....
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Hyper-v Server Core 2012 R2 hung "Backing Up" using Veeam
I keep having an issue using Veeam to backup our VHD's. I can't figure out if its the way Veeam is doing something or a bug in Hyper-V. I never saw this issue prior to using Veeam. It seems like about...
View ArticleFinding good cloud online publications
Hello,I am looking to find some good online publications around cloud. Really looking to keep up on the trends and stats around public, private and hybrid cloud for our business hostedbizz.Any...
View Articlebackup and recovery
what would be the best backup and recovery solution out there? We have been using symantec BE 2010 and my full backup runs very long, as in too long. We only have about 3 TB of data which is taking...
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 ArticlePhdVirtual to Unitrends UVB - Anyone running this with confidence?
I've been a PhD Virtual customer for a few years as my virtualization used to be Xenserver. When I migrated to VMWare this past year, I stayed with PhD because it worked for me and they came in very...
View ArticleQuorum Vs Unitrends for backup and DR
We are looking for a backup/DR solution for our physical servers. I checked Quorum and Unitrends. What should be the best and cost effective solution?Couple of things to be noted:1. We have only...
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