Oh Azure, you’re breaking my heart
You looked so promising with your pretty face and features.I tried you out, because you looked so beautiful and functional. You had thechance to save me money and make me look good. You never looked...
View ArticleHigh-Rely beeping continuously
Hold off calling support. It usually is just a fan issue that gives out a false reading after a power surge. You can turn off that annoying sound by just pulling the latch on top of the pac to the left...
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 ArticleAppAssure Opinions (post Dell)
We are looking at getting AppAssure to replace our current disaster recovery solution (my external 2TB hard drives) Was wondering if anyone had any additional information aside form what the reps have...
View ArticleEndpoints back-up solution for MSP
Hi there,Our company is looking for solution to back up our clientsendpoints (laptops, pcs)Genarely what our needs are, is the ability to run thesoftware on our own servers to offerback-up for our...
View Articlefile job to copy like my documents sync
Hi everyone, we use my documents/desktop folder redirection. It works fine, but we have a few users who we have to not use it for because of other applications. Has anyone created a batch file or...
View ArticleLooking for a backup solution to replace our current set up.
We currently run all of our backups through Autonomy, and while it started out as a reasonable expense the cost just balloons every month as we store more and more data. I am looking to replace this...
View ArticleSolution to Improve Backup Times
Ok, I just got tasked by my senior colleague with the following scenario:Currently, there are 2 servers with 2 TB of data each and this data is being backed up 1x a week. It takes 3 full days for the...
View ArticleLTO4 to LTO6
Hi everyone,Does anyone have experience with tape backup upgrading from LTO4 to LTO6? Is the speed significantly faster?My 10TB backup is currently it is taking 4 full days with LTO4 tapes and backup...
View ArticleUnitrends & Tape strategies.
Hello,I'm in the process of evaluating the Unitrend 813 to replace my Backup Exec 3600 r2 Appliance.From my reading it would appear that Unitrend is forcing you to do replications as the offsite...
View ArticleHyper-V 2012 R2 Backups - What do you do?
We just rolled out a two host Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition Hyper-V environment. Both hosts are directly connected to a SAN via fiber. We are looking for an affordable solution to back our...
View ArticleUneasy on Sunday morning: A waterfall in the server room
This is the 313th article in the Spotlight on IT series. If you'd be interested in writing an article on the subject of backup, security, storage, virtualization, mobile, networking, wireless, cloud...
View ArticleBackup to External USB Drive
Hi: easy question I guess, not sure how to setup this, the way I had this before keep telling me that disk is full. BACKUP EXEC 2014 W2K8R2 server. External USB Harddrive 1 TB need to backup a...
View ArticleVeeam Backup
I have the Veeam Manager on the host pc backing up 3 Hyper-V's. Should I make a job for all three separately or just in a cluster? Does it make a difference when I restore just one? I'm having the...
View ArticleBackup Exec 2014 on P2V Machine?
Hi Guys,Was wondering if anyone has ran into any issues with BE 2014 running on a Virtual Machine that was converted from a Physical Box? I am looking to convert a 2008 R2 server that is mainly our BE...
View ArticleNetVault and BackupExec agents on same server
As part of our membership with a non-profit association for Texas community health centers we get a certain amount of storage space at their location for offsite backups (500GB of space). They recently...
View ArticleDisks need consolidation following Veeam snapshot removal
HelloSince upgrading to vCenter 5.5 we are experiencing an issue with Veeam backups where upon removal of the snapshot sometimes the disk consolidation fails for randomised set of VMs on a specific...
View ArticleRAID Discs and Server Backups
We are looking for some suggestions for a backup solution. Currently running Backup Exec 2010R3. The application fails consistently and we are not happy with the over seas support. We have 9 physical...
View ArticleWebsite source code backups and "pruning"
My company develops a number of websites, so we have a lot of development source code that needs to be backed up.Actually backing it up hasn't been much of an issue, what has been an issue is deleting...
View ArticleBarracuda Backup 890 and Lotus Notes Databases
Does anyone out there use a Barracuda backup device with Lotus Notes databases? We are looking into a Barracuda Backup 890 and the big question is: Will it work with Domino Databases. Thanks,Scott
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