Unitrends Support Is Unresponsive
Hi Unitrends, I am pretty fed up with your support right now. I have opened a case on November 8th and it still has not been resolved yet. Our initial support technician could not figure out the issue...
View ArticleUnitrends Hyper-V Incremental Job Times for VMs with Larger Data Volumes
Fellow Spiceheads - I'm currently working with Unitrends Support to investigate a slowness issue around Hyper-V incremental backups. The slowness we're seeing seems to be much more prevalent with VMs...
View ArticleBackups - restoration of files
Hi all. Please bear with me here! I'm using backupexec 10, but I guess whichever solution I use, the same question would be relevant. So, I full backups monthly and weekly, with daily differentials....
View ArticleRetrospect Disaster Recovery
I have never used Retrospect before and I am having difficulty performing a disaster recovery from USB tape drive. Has someone on this site successfully performed this task? Any information would be...
View ArticleBackup Exec support for vSphere 5.5: BE 2012 revision 1798 SP3
Greetings Spicecatz... New service pack dropped this week:Issue Backup Exec 2012 revision 1798 Service Pack 3Solution This Service Pack (SP3) contains added platform support, critical updates, and...
View ArticleAppAssure / Replay Backup - licensing costs ?
Anyone out there running AppAssure / Replay Backup by Dell? I'm curious about their licensing costs however you can't get that directly unless you fill out a request for and which then leads to sales...
View ArticleVRanger or Symantec System Recovery
Hve a client that has both VRanger, Symantec System Recovery and Backup Exec running on their servers. The backup Exec is staying for file backup but should I get rid of VRanger or System Recovery?...
View ArticleBest software to backup and replicate virtual machines
Does anyone have any experience with Eversync backup software? We are looking at several different backup products for our virtual environment. We've tried Veeam but haven't been too impressed so far....
View ArticleWhat do you use to back up your servers?
What do you use to back up your servers? I recently started with a new company, and there is no backup in place. I am a little concerned because some of the servers are....let's just say "a little...
View ArticleWinner is? Unitrends vs Veeam
I installed Unitrends software VM and have watched the videos and did a small backup test. My question at this point is there a need for me to evaluate Veeam? Are there anything missing from Unitrends...
View ArticleBackup Exec 2012 VM backup
earlier I configured backup for 4 VMs non GRT with total size of around 900gb++ and managed to get it to complete successfully around 4 hours++. but after I recreate the job again, i've not managed to...
View Articleonline backup for non for profit server?
I'd like to set up online backups for two non for profit servers. Of course cost is an issue. One of them has ~500GB of photos and the other is probably under 200GB. They will have onsite disk to disk...
View ArticleVBScript to logon/off from secured network connections using Windows Credentials
Hi all, I am looking for a VB Script to log on/off from secured network folders connecting through Windows Authentication. My reason is that I have local NAS devices which are used for backing up...
View ArticleBackups and replication
Hi all, I wonder if anyone is in a similar situation to me and has a solution to this problem. We run a hosting environment and are looking at the best way to automatically replicate backups offsite....
View ArticleDoes Veeam backup non virtualized physical servers?
We have a mix of non-virtual physical servers running 2008 R2 and an EXSi cluster powering 65 Server VM's and 20 VMWare View pool. Does anyone know whether Veeam supports the backing-up of physical...
View ArticleOpen Source Backup Software
Hi, I have a Server using Cobian to do their daily backup but there are some concerns that it might not be backing up all the files for some reason. I have seen where the backup is compared to the...
View ArticleUnitrends SQL Backups Fail
My initial setup with Unitrends went well, except for the SQL backups. The person who went through the appliance configuration did not know much about SQL backups. Every time I had a question about an...
View ArticleBackup Exec 2012 R2 update – news about WS 2012 R2 support & target GA
And a Spicy good day to all... This morning on our Symantec Connect forum, Sr Dir of Backup Exec Product Mgmt Brian Greene dropped a blog laying out some details of the immediate future for Backup...
View ArticleTape compression keeps changing
Hi, The ratio at which my data is being compressed keeps changing day to day for which is essentially the same data. The best ratio is 1.2:1 which it used to do consistently every backup but recently...
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