Configure Shadow Copies to External USB
Hey All - I recently purchased a Seagate 2.5TB drive for use in storing Shadow Copies. The idea is to use it as a tertiary backup system for any data drives.If I go into Shadow Copy configuration for...
View ArticleDealing with Backup Size
In the past we were using the standard GFS backup scheme. Monthly backups saved for a year, weekly fulls with daily incremental. This was when were using tapes and primarily had physical servers but in...
View ArticleBDR options?
We are a small business with a few servers on site that need to be backed up. We had Datto BDR's through a consultant we worked with but we've since broken ties with them. I am looking for alternate...
View ArticleBig problem! Damaged VMware Data Recovery Restore Points
Hi there,we had a server crash of our ESX server and the hdds are all wiped out. We did backups of the VMs with VMware Data Recovery (VDR) and so tried to restore from the restore points. The restore...
View ArticleAcronis True Image 2014??
I am wanting to put in a faster HDD in my dell precision 4600 I did a disk and partion backup and thought alls I need to do is recover that to the new hard drive but cant get acronis to recover to the...
View ArticleBackup plan in case company phone goes down
Twice in the last week parts of the building our office is in has lost power. Our office has not been affected but our phone system has. Causing us to not be able to make or receive outside calls....
View ArticleMicrocassette tapes and backups
Okay, I know this is going to sound crazy... I'm looking for a way to get files from a micro cassette tape to a hard drive for backup purposes. I don't see too many USB micro cassette drives out there...
View ArticleSelling VeeamON to the Boss
As many here know, VeeamON is in Vegas in early October. So suppose you're the local Veeam administrator at your company, and you're trying to convince your boss it would be beneficial to attend this...
View ArticleCollective reliability of DFSR, Hyper-V replica & Shadow Copy for backups
I am currently planning to backup solution for our school. I'm considering a few options including Veeam. I'd like to ask the Spiceworks community their thoughts on using some of Microsoft's built in...
View ArticleVeeam Backup Copy delay?
Hi, forum newbie and figured I start with a newbie question ;)in backup copy job (from reverse incremental backup jobs) I have noticed in some vm's a 12-14hr gap between "copying restore point from...
View ArticleVeeam Replication Failure
we are getting failures on our site to site replications: (see message below)Failed to create processing task for VM BIB-EXCH02 Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.Not sure...
View ArticleRemoving old Servers from Backup Exec 2014?
Just installed my first Production BE 2014. Coming off a trial version that had been in place for nearly the full 60 days allowed.A couple of very small niggles in the process which I'll cover in a...
View ArticleVeeam - Support
So getting an error on my new File server 2012R2 when attempting to back it up.Warning message from vm1: The guest OS has reported an error duringquiescing. The error code was: 5 The errormessage was:...
View ArticleCritique my backup setup
Environment:Mirrored SanSymphony SAN's (both on premise, separated by MDF/IDF, different floors)4 XenServer Hosts28 VM's, mostly Windows Server 2003/2008/2012Symantec Backup Exec 2012CloudBerry Server...
View ArticleBackup off-site strategy using backupexec 2010
Hello, we got a problem, right now locally we backup around 400gb without any problem in tapes, BUT we got a branch that has 60gb of data that need to be backed up.I tried in a weekend use backupexec...
View ArticleBest Backup software for server to nas backups
Hello everyoneI am looking for a backup software to backup the files of my client from their servers to a nas. I currently use a synology nas. 1 possibly 2 ESXi Host v5.5 so it's a virtual environment,...
View ArticleUnitrends appliance - can I copy schedule settings?
I've got a backup configured for a server that has all the options I want, including the timing. Can I copy all of that to another server or do I need to recreate it all?
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Higher CPU usage since 7.5 update
Hello,I recently updated from 7.4 to 7.5 and have noticed higher cpu usage. I was just curious if anyone else has noticed this or should I have support dig into it a bit?
View ArticleNetvault reviews ?
Hi guys..I will be installing the netvault trial.. but it seems that there is not so much information about it here..does any one has some experience, recommendation, review? ..I'm still testing...
View ArticleFree tool for backup and restore VM ESXi
Currently I am looking for backup software that allows me to back up ESXi. I know most vendors provide free version for try out. Does any of these free version support ESXi? Or only the paid version...
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