Speccing a New Veeam Server
Hello,I'm looking to replace the ailing Dell PowerEdge T110II server currently running Veeam B&R for our network. It was never originally intended to do the job and has a very low-end RAID card...
View ArticleLooking at a New Backup Solution: Replibit
Hey Community,My company is looking into a new backup solution to offer within our MSP network. Right now, we are using StorageCraft, and have been using the incremental chain-based product for many...
View ArticleCustom Built Backup Server
Hiya,We're on a very tight budget and I was wondering if anyone has built and deployed a successful custom built cheap Server 2012 DPM2012 backup server.My ball park cost is around the £1000 mark.Any...
View Articlequestion regarding Bare Metal Recovery in DPM
Hi, In my hyper-v I have a Windows Server 2012 virtual machine with IIS and few access databases. This server has single partition (C:).If I protect this server with Bare Metal Recovery and System...
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 ArticleVeeam backup and replications Host vs VM backups
Hi all.I want to get your opinions on the best was to back up vmware based virtual machines. A while back I had to restore an entire VM due to an issue and successfully restored a back up however I had...
View ArticleSvr 2008 - Backup no longer works after replacing drives
We had a failed drive in our array which consisted of two 1.5tb drives. We ordered 2tb drives to get some more space. Imaged the OS to an external drive, created a new 2tb array, imaged OS to the new...
View ArticleCloud Image Backup and Restore
Hello all,I am looking for a cloud based tool that allows me to backup and restore individual computer images. I work in a regulated environment and am creating several standard builds that contain...
View ArticleDR setup questions
Setting up a DR strategy for our SMB (25 users) site.ESXi host -1st ( 7 VMs)ESXi host -2nd ( 2 VMs)Let me know which option is good:Option A:Use local USB drives(5) and keep swapping them every day....
View ArticleSoftlayer Backup Question
Does anyone else use softlayer as a cloud provider? How do you do your backups and disaster recovery? We have a mixture of windows and linux that will be on virtual and bare metal. We would like to do...
View ArticleAmazon Glacier to S3
Hopefully someone is familiar with AWS as I am notI have previously imported 4TB of data to glacier via the java import/export as one vault item now I need to access all of the files through amazon S3....
View ArticleBackup Exec 2012 to 2014 update discussion thread
Hi all,Our BE2012 installation has always been a little flaky (jobs randomly putting themselves on hold, NDMP backup fails, continually having to recreate jobs etc) and as we have the option I'm...
View ArticleVeeam Backup Copy Job doesn't find any restore point
Hello!In Veeam B&R 8 I set up a Backup Job for two VMware VMs, configuring a Backup Copy Job as secondary destination. Both jobs use encryption, if this minds.The problem is that Backup Copy Job...
View ArticleBackup Exec 2012 "Physical Volume Library Media not found"
Hi,Running Backup Exec 2012 (14.0 Rev 1798) on a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM connected to an ESXi 5.5 host. SAS HBA adapters are in pass-through mode and connected to the VM. Tape drive is a DELL...
View ArticleUsing Exchange U-Air Wizards in Veeam B&R 8
U-Air is slowly being deprecated in favor of using the Exchange/SQL/SharePoint/AD Explorers and that is a good thing. They work pretty well. However, if you, like me are stuck on Exchange 2007 for the...
View ArticleVeeam Installation Location Best Practice
I've searched around, but i just can't quite find what I'm looking for so I thought I would create a new post. I've made the decision to standardize on Veeam B&R, Essentials to be more specific....
View ArticleBackup Exec 2012 - Unable to Delete Backup Sets
So I have been using BE 2012 for a couple years now and been fairly happy with it. I have a situation that requires me to manually delete backup sets to make room for future backups. All of my backups...
View ArticleVeeam support not up to the standard as software
hi allRecently number of my Veeam backup job start failing and I have to say the veeam support not that been good .I am still waiting them get back to me. One critical VM backup fail all the time and...
View ArticleWindows Server Backup - Cannot Restore From Remote
I am having trouble restoring an existing backup using windows server backup. The backup is stored on a network share. I goto recovery wizard > a backup stored on another location > remote shared...
View Articleanyone backup a Lenovo px12-450r with Unitrends appliance?
We recently acquired a px-12-45r NAS. It looks like IOMEGA has a modified version of Linux running as the OS. I tried installing the Unitrends Linux client, and it wants a bunch of dependencies...
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