Best long term backup? DVD, Bluray, HDD ?
I have a lot of pst outlook backups burned in about 200 DVD containing data from 2003 - 2013 . In year 1995 we start making backups on CD, later we move to DVD and DVD-Double Layer for backups. Now we...
View ArticleVSS won't take snapshot
I have a 2012R2 server running on EXSi 5.5 that my Appassure 5.4.2 won't backup.I've started the narrow down process to the fact that the System Reserved Partition is full.When I try to run VSS on that...
View ArticleBest backup software for 2 servers and rotating external USB HDD for small biz?
Hello,I am a small dental office with less than 10 employees with 1). Windows 2012 foundation server as a file server and user profile server and 2). Windows 2008 r2 foundation server with SQL for our...
View ArticleHow to renew NFR license?
Hello, Our NFR license is about to expire. We used the SPICEYUEB originally. How do we renew this? I clicked on the upgrade link and it took me to a Unitrends website showing: I have a promo code I...
View ArticleReevaluating current backup strategy in use
Present setup:HP ML370 G5 running Server 2012 R2 Datacenter with Hyper-V role installed.4 Virtual machines running (DC, File Server, Spiceworks, and Unitrends UEB)Synology DS411slim NAS for backup...
View ArticleUEB - True Point-In-Time Restore
We have been able to get back to testing our Free UEB and were testing the restore capabilities on a test Linux VM. What we have observed is that UEB does not provide a true point-in-time recovery.Our...
View ArticleOffsite Backup Solution
Hi everyone,I want to offer my customers an offsite backup solution which I can host at our premises. We have spare dedicated IP addresses on a 20Mbps up/down line - which can easily be increased to...
View ArticleBackup using incremental block based ftp as windows service
Trying to find a windows backup software open source / free which will run as a sevrice and do incremental block based backup to ftp drives. Any ideas?
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 ArticleThe Mysteries of Retention
We have been testing how UEB does its synthesized backups and how it handles the retention of backups. We currently have three VMs (2 Linux and 1 Windows 7) which are being backed-up by UEB. The...
View ArticleUpdate Protecting VMs on a SAN - Recovery 823
This is under Setting -> Storage and Retention > Storage Removed the previous LUN that was being backed up, since we've shutdown that server. It had LUN #0 in the Unitrends list. So I removed...
View ArticleOver Socket Limit
Hi I'm on the UEB NFR edition and recently cleared backups/hosts from within the Dashboard to start again. I setup my 2 Physical hosts / single processors each and managed a test backup of a VM. When...
View ArticleBackup for handful of laptops
We run a Citrix environment where 80% of our users log on to thin clients, 15% use PC's, and the last 5% have laptops. The Citrix users and PC users are setup to save everything to their network...
View ArticleVEEAM dedupe ratios
What dedupe ratios are people seeing with their VEEAM backup jobs on a daily basis?An active full VEEAM backup job of mine is about 1.2 TB of data, that deduplicates down to 201.52 GB. Dailies dedupe...
View ArticleSmall bussiness server software
Hello, I am currently looking for the best and yet most affordable server back up software I can find. Just a bit of info on the system we have going we have 6 servers with one of them being and SQL...
View ArticleTrouble backing up file prf324.tmp
When I perform a tape back of our entire primary server, I always have trouble backing up this particular file named prf324.tmp. After researching prf*.tmp files that they are associated with Roaming...
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Unitrends UEB VMware virtual appliance wont boot.
Hi all. I have VMware Essentials on two IBM xSeries servers. I have a Unitrends virtual appliance on one of them, with the "Spiceworks Free" license. It has been doing automatic backups for about 6...
View ArticleFOG as a Ghost snapshot replacement?
Hey guys. We currently have a FOG server to do image deployment with. We also have 36 computers that are on 24/7. They are used to run special pieces of equipment and are only restarted every Monday...
View ArticleBackup Exec ... a problematic child
rantI am getting sick of our backup solution including BE2012. It's always a hassle to make things work. Every week it's a battle to get everything backed-up. The few weeks per year that all backups...
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