Feedback on Idera (R1Soft) Backup
I've been reading some recent articles on Idera Backup and, on paper, sounds like a pretty compelling product; physical and virtual backup, multi-platform, CDP, replication. About the only major...
View ArticleOffsite backup help
We are SMB company with about 40 users.We are testing our first virtual server ( ESXi 5.5) which hosts around 4-5 VMs. We are licensed for vmware essentials ( basic version )ESXi 5.5 host server is a...
View ArticleUnitrends Tape Archiving - LTO6 is not recognized
Hi ,I'm hoping to find correct way of doing this or some guidance if I configured this incorrectly.I'm running ESXi 5.5 ( Enterprise Plus ) on a pair of HP DL380 G8, one of them hosts the VMs, other...
View ArticleDatto Product Option
We're contemplating either a Datto Siris Lite, or the Siris 2. I'm familiar with the features of each and interested in hearing from anyone else that has faced this decision, what their choice was, and...
View ArticleUnitrends AMA on the Spiceworks Freenode Channel Tomorrow at 11am ET
Hey Backup fans! Some of you may have heard about the Spiceworks Freenode group, but if not, more details are available here. The organizers of the group have asked Unitrends to join them tomorrow...
View ArticleEncrypted backup failure to Datto Siris 2
Hey guys,anyone else has issues running encrypted backups to Datto Siris 2 appliance?Non-encrypted backup on the 2008 R2 SP1 File Server work without problems, however all encrypted backups failed.This...
View ArticleBackup Solutions
Good day, I work for an Architects practice and we use AutoCAD and Revit aswell as other sotfware, we are increasingly using more and more data on a daily and weekly basis and are looking to move away...
View ArticleBackups to the rescue, again! but this is getting old...
Guess what? Yeah, Cryptowall 2.0.Guess who? yeah, another person "helping a customer find something online" and clicking on random shit. woo!!Luckily, we take Previous Versions snapshots every 3 hours...
View ArticleDPM 2012 R2 Backup Primary DPM server
DPM 2012R2 UR 3I am attempting to backup my 2 primary DPM servers (DPM1 and DPM2) with a 3rd DPM server (DPM3).I run in to 2 issues.Through the console, i will install the agent, and it says it...
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Off site backup
Hi guys,This is my first time posting on Spiceworks! (go easy on me). I'll give you a bit of in-sight into our backup procedure. Server does a VSS every night, I go into the server room every day and...
View ArticleOpensource off-site backup software
HiI work for a small IT support firm that has a dozen clients. We want to offer off-site backups but the software that we have found is very expensive. Can anyone suggest any software which is open...
View ArticleOn-Premise Workstation/Laptop Backup solution.
I'm looking for a backup solution that will allow me to backup workstation/laptops to a centralized server/network storage. The challenge is being able to backup laptops that are out in the field. The...
View ArticleRetention on unitrends backup
Backup experts out there , I have question on retention setting for a backup, hope you can explain to me? This is general question, but i am working on UEBI have a backup schedule full master on Friday...
View ArticleDPM 2012 fails on Exchange Mailbox Restore
So, As part of our DR testing, i am tasked to perform a mailbox restore. When i attempt to restore to the RDB1 store, it get an error in DPM:"DPM failed to communicate with [DPMSERVER.FQDN] because the...
View ArticleRemote backup solution
Im looking for a good way to remotely backup a nas. Its not much data, less than a gig. Ive been looking at btsync but im not 100% convinced of its reliability.I would like to back it up to a freenas...
View ArticleLicensing issue on disaster recovery device
We have two servers running our business and I just brought in a Unitrends device so that we would have backup and quick disaster recovery. The two servers are 5+ years old and are not virtualized....
View ArticleUnitrends & Wan backups
I'm in the process of evaluating a unitrends 813 appliance.During my sales call & while working with a eval engineer i was repeatedly told backing up over the wan isn't supported.I just wanted to...
View ArticleGeneral backups: the push for online backups vs physical off-site strategies
So I’m writing with the perspective of an IT manager who lived/worked through the hurricane Sandy aftermath in downtown Manhattan. And I can't imagine it’s that unique of a situation.I'm a small...
View ArticleUnitrends offers Backup Exec 3600 Trade-In Program FAQs
By now, many of you may have heard that Symantec has announced that they will be discontinuing their Backup Exec 3600 appliance in 2015. You may have also heard that Unitrends is offering existing...
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...
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