Off-site Backup Locations
Right now we are currently using Veeam to backup about 2.5 TBs of hard drive space (after reverse incremental backups). Due to the our slow WAN pipe and the amount of data we have to push off-site, we...
View ArticleVeeam 7 Backing Up Windows Server 2012 Guest with Deduplciation
I contacted Veeam about backing up a Windows Server 2012 VMWare guest that was running deduplication. I am not referring to a backup repository/target but the actual guest is 2012 file server with...
View ArticleMonitoring Backups
Can I use Spiceworks to monitor backups?Currently I am using Veeam and Unitrends.
View Article45min runtime battery backup?
Hello, Currently we have three 1000w battery backups, but they only provide around 16 minutes of backup power. We're looking to extend this out to 45 minutes and I've already checked the models; we...
View ArticleHyper-V Cluster Client not Polling Version Correctly
About a month back, I updated the Unitrends Agents on all of my servers to the latest version. This included 3 of our Hyper-V 2008 R2 hosts in addition to 4 Hyper-V 2012 hosts. These hosts comprise...
View ArticleUnitrends and Tape Archives (headaches)
I'll start with a Positive and say that I do like the way Unitrends (Recovery 822) does it's Incremental forevers and that you can install all the clients you want. It's not perfect, but it does work...
View ArticleUpdates to Unitrends Appliance Broke SharePoint Backups
So... Apparently one of the recent Unitrends updates (7.1.0-5, specifically) broke my SharePoint backups. I'm not writing as much for assistance as I am to express my irritation at this. In my...
View ArticleOffiste LTO Tape Storage Location
We have several hundred LTO5 and LTO6 data tapes that we store offsite. These tapes can be broken down into two categories - archive and backup. The archive tapes are mirrored, so we have one set that...
View ArticleNeed a backup solution Server/client!!
Hi, We need a backup solution for our internal system. Have some 100's Windows XP/Windows 7 computers in a closed network. We have IPSEC/SSL VPN to all of the location and only port 80 open. The...
View ArticleBest external Hard Drive Connection Ethernet or USB 3.0
For the purposes of backup what what be the best connection type for my external hard drives? Ethernet or USB 3.0 ( With 2.0 and 1.0 Compatability)? There will be many of these Hard drives to contain...
View ArticleSAN Direct backups with Unitrends
I work for a local town government and we recently purchased and installed a new Unitrends virtual appliance (UEB) to replace our old tape based system. We're running a three host, ESXi 4.1 system...
View ArticleMirroring a RAID 5 server
Hello I have an HP ProLiant DL380 G7 Server which came setup with RAID 5.....I have an IDENTICAL second server where I want to have the same EXACT same files/programs....what would be the best and...
View ArticleVsphere SRM versus Veeam Backup?
If I want to do a couple "simple" things in a small environment, do I need to buy one of these big packages? Have a dell 1950 dual quad core running esxi 5.x. It has one virtual machine (which happens...
View ArticleOff-site Cloud Backup with Symantec Backup Exec 2012
We have Symantec's Backup Exec 2012 software which has worked out really well for us. We have been doing backup to disk and taking those off-site (which we plan to continue to do) but would also like...
View ArticleHDD Cloning Hardware
Hello We recently invested in SSD drives for the majority of our PC's and laptops. A lot of these are at remote branches where there isn't the facility to open up a PC and use it's guts to clone the...
View ArticleRetrospect for Network backup
My network administrator is struggling with backup software Retrospect. For testing purpose I asked him to backup our email server only to find out it takes over 2 days to back. This of course throws...
View ArticleRobocopy command
Hello, I am new to using robocopy. I am trying to configure either a batch or scheduled task to run robocopy to MOVE files from one location to another that are older than a certain date (ie archiving...
View ArticleUnitrends Enterprise Backup guides
HI Lads and Lasses, I recently installed Unitrends Enterprise Backup (VMware edition) when they were running the free T-Shirt comp (I think I missed out, anyhoo) and I now would like to move from...
View ArticleCloud backup options
Just got assigned task of finding a cloud back up solution for our 3 servers. We would need around 1TB of storage. So far i like iDrive because 1 of our locations has really bad internet speed and it...
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