How is my backup plan? Suggestions?
Hey guys, I just want to get some feedback on the backup strategy that I have recently been using for clients. I work in the SMB market (15-30 users generally).I have two types of clients. Those with...
View ArticleCentralized Backup for 30+ Mac Workstations
I’m looking for a solution to replace Mac Retrospect for a 30+ system office.Myclient currently backs up 1 Mac server and about 30 Mac workstations to harddrives on a Retrospect server on a three week...
View ArticleBackups and WAN Replication
I'm curious as to how much data everyone is backing up on a nightly basis (even better if you have de-duplicated numbers) and how much bandwidth your pipe is, to replicate that data offsite, whether to...
View ArticleVeeam Availability Suite?
So I have a dumb question hopefully one of the Veeam folks can clear up for me. Veeam "Availability Suite," is this just a new name for v8 or are there more programs included in this suite? I bought an...
View ArticleWhat Veeam Product Do I Need
I have pretty much standardized on Veeam for my VM backups. What I want to do is backup a couple of VM servers, one 2012R2 DC and one 2008R2 SQL, to a local NAS and to the cloud for off-site. The...
View ArticleBE2012 missing 1,5TB in storage ???
So yes , for now we are still sticking with Backup Exec 2012 ... not really sure why.Anyways , I have this weird problem ... the backup server seems to run out of space gradually. Whatever I do (reduce...
View ArticleRecovery Appliances and SQL 2014
So, MSSQL 2014 was released on Apr 1 (that's nearly 7.5 months ago as of this writing), and apparently it's still not supported for backup with my Recovery appliance. Not only that, but apparently...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 Backup - Restore Problem
I have an office that was hit by cryptolocker malware. The reception PC was infected and most of the shared server drive has been encrypted. They are protected by Windows Server backup with two USB...
View ArticleServer Backup
we have in our company three server all windows server 2008 R2, one for GP and one for HR and new one for Backup we want to backup GP and HR Server on the third server, Please help.
View ArticleCopying a NetApp SQL SnapManager backup to local disk
My NetApp knowledge is limited but I have a need to move a backup file taken from a SQL SnapManager backup and send it off to a consultant to review but I'm not sure how to go about this. If someone...
View ArticleHow can I compress folders from robocopy backup automatically?
I have a robocopy script that is set to run every day with task scheduler...Textrobocopy \\dc-01.domain.lan\Data\ADUsers I:\backups\%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%%date:~-4,4%\ /MIR which works fine, but I'm...
View ArticleScale Computing, Backups and You (or me)
We have had our Scale 5 node cluster for less the a month. We worked with Scale, and found that they were a good fix for what we are trying to do. The Scale Cluster is Awesome and the Scale team is...
View ArticleFacebook Profile Backup
What does everybody use to back up company Facebook Pages? Being in California, we have a legal requirement to keep records, including Facebook info. We're currently using Social Safe for backups but...
View ArticleVM Backup - Veeam or Altaro
Hi All,Looking at one of these for backing up our VM's, 2 hosts running about 20 VMs+1 host in DR site idea being can backup the VM's push a copy out to DR and should the entire site go down just spin...
View ArticleAcronis alternatives?
We've been using Acronis for bare metal backups of "special" desktop PCs. It's been giving us some headaches lately, and we're wondering what solid alternatives there might be. We need:Scheduled...
View ArticleUsing Windows Azure to deploy an off-site backup server VM
Has anyone implemented an off-site backup server VM in the cloud using Windows Azure?
View ArticleHyper-V 2012R2 Cluster / Dell VRTX - VSS Issues
Hi All,We have recently configured a Hyper-V 2012 R2 Cluster using Dell PE VRTX hardware - we now have strange backup issues and we cannot get to the bottom of it.Key points to start with..- 2 Host...
View ArticleFeedback 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 Articleunitrends backup encryption
Is there anyone set encryption on there backup?Here is what I need , We have a requirement to set up encryption on a backup , the backup schedule is running for long time .Will the encryption work if...
View ArticleYes, another backup question
I'm trying to put together an off site backup solution that does not cost $1200 (or more) a year for cloud storage, that just seems like a lot of money to me. I'm talking about 2 VM's, roughly 400Gb....
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