Big Backups
I have "a friend" here that is looking for a backup solution that would handle around 30TB of glacial data and 19TB of weekly backups. Initial backups would be onsite with replication to another office...
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 ArticleAnnounced Today: Veeam Endpoint Backup Free
Today we have announced Veeam Endpoint Backup Free. I've also recorded a quick video explaining and showing a bit of this new...
View ArticleAppassure Core on virtual server?
Hi guys.I'm evaluating the backup and recovery suite with appassure, netvault and vranger. netvault can be installed on any physical or virtual server.but for appassure I'm not clear if it can be...
View Articlecorrupted external hard drive
is there a way to recover from a corrupted external hard drive?
View ArticleWorkstation Backups - Macrium vs Shadowprotect vs Acronis, etc.
Hi,We're looking for a backup solution that can manage multiple workstations over a network and back up images to a Synology NAS. A mission critical backup with a strong RTO is required as the backups...
View ArticleWhat service providers are providing for Data backup
HI, I am just wondering what kind of Backup/Restore services are any service providers providing to their customers.I am running as IT Service provider and trying to setup Private cloud for Backup.I...
View ArticleSBS 2011 Backup Failing - VSS Failed - Help Please
Helping out a non profit organization after they were fed up with their last IT support.They are running SBS 2011 and using the built in windows backup. Trying to backup to 2 external hard drives....
View ArticleiDrive for home use slow speed
I am reaching to the community for ideas. I purchased an iDrive subscription and used theirexpress service to ship me a drive. I backedup 450 gb and shipped it back to them. Once they synced to their...
View ArticleCrashPlan Pro - "Backup Files are Being Maintained" Message
I really hope someone from Code42 is here in the community and can assist with this one.I am backing up 4 different computers using CrashPlan Pro (to CrashPlan cloud). I am getting the message above...
View ArticleVirtualised backups: experiences with backup server as a guest VM
Hi,I'd be interested to read peoples experiences with running backup software as a guest VM.We have 2 physical 2012r2 hosts, each running 5 VM's, with vhdx's stored local to each host. I'd really like...
View ArticleBackup time issue
After some firmware upgrades to our Equallogic SANs this weekend, the headers on our production database's backup file got corrupted and backups started failing. We restored the last good backup of the...
View ArticleAnyone running CrashPlan ProE?
Am looking at this for about ~250 users. A master server is required with some fairly beefy specs with an appliance as an alternative.During our POC (much smaller), we used a VM and things worked...
View ArticleCreate HDD image from flash drive run tool?
Wondering what people find to be the best tool for creating a live PC's disk image. Needs to be run from a flash drive and not installed on the PC.Thanks
View ArticleWill Windows Server Backup work for this task?
I have a Raid10 data array (the OS is on a separate array) that I am going to replace with a new array of larger drives. This data drive has the MSSQL program and my SQL data stored on it. I'm trying...
View ArticleDoes anyone have Acronis Backup Advanced 11.5
Does anyone have Acronis Backup Advanced 11.5 and have it working well? I've been trying to use this software for just under a year and I've never had to babysit a program so much. Today while trying...
View ArticleDell AppAssure vs Symantec Backup Exec 2014
Okay, so I know this stuff gets asked a lot and I've read a lot of the stuff on here, as well as anything I could find elsewhere. Haven't really found quite enough for me to be 100% sure yet.We...
View ArticleAnyone Else have trouble buying Veeam?
I was running the trial version of Veeam, it worked great. The key has run out, and we were ready for purchase. I attempted to buy it online, which apparently is impossible. They insist we go though...
View ArticleTape Backup Replacement
We are outgrowing our current backup solution of 400gb tape backups. They are HP LTO2 Ultrium. Currently we are at 380/400g on these tapes and that is only the bare essentials such as network shares,...
View ArticleVeeam Backup and Replication Server
Hi everyone. So I've followed a similar set up to what most people have mentioned here with Veeam. I have a Veeam server running as a VM on my onsite host (VMWare). And I replicate a couple VMs to an...
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