Tape Drives - How often do yours need cleaning?
Woke up this morning and did my usual 5 minute check that our weekend backup copies are running.We have Commvault and a Dell TL4000 library with a pair of LTO5 drives and go D2D2T so the backups...
View ArticleBackup Exec 2010R3 hanging backups
We recently had our 6 year old HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader (LTO3) fail. As it wasn't under warranty I elected to just replace it with the same model but with an LTO4 drive. Installation was easy, Backup Exec...
View ArticleNew backup software solution ideas?
Ok, I just started working at a medical facility and everyone here is frustrated by the current system we have here. We use retrospect 8 now and have been nothing but upset by it. Problems like...
View ArticleScript to backup files
I have a batch script that copies files from one drive to another and appends the results to a log file. The log file is saved with the current date in the file name each time the script is run. I...
View ArticleUnitrends Backup will not add my host server, why?
Ok so I have installed the unitrends free edition and it all seemed great. I added each of my VM's and that worked fine...except it would not backup. Some file level error. After researching the issue...
View ArticleGoogle+ Hangout with Backup Exec 2012 Engineers
Location: Google+ - http://buex.ec/beISOse Time: Wed, 12 June, 2013 - 13:00 - 14:00 EDT Are you a Backup Exec user? Do you ever have wild ideas about how you could better use this solution? Ever run...
View ArticleDid you miss the Backup Exec LiveStream event? No worries! It's HERE!!!
Greetings Spiceheads! On 22 May, Spiceworks was kind enough to turn their studio over to a couple of Backup Exec users, our Director of Product Management and me. We took questions from the audience...
View Articlenetwork status has changed Unitrends 712
ever since I set up traps (some time ago) I am seeing this - what does this mean? I checked this link out and ran the command with 1024 (my max is 4 gigs and it was at 256) but it has not seemed to...
View ArticleSmall Local Backup Solution
Alright guys, another Storage/backup question for the community. I am looking for an internal, free backup solution for our servers. I eventually would like to backup our win7 desktop files, but thats...
View ArticleWindows Server Backup Error accessing Remote Shared Folder
I am looking for some help with Windows Server Backup, while I await getting one of the above mentioned backup solutions. If needed I can post this as a separate question in the forums so let me know...
View ArticleAnnual Data Protection Report 2013 SMB Edition - Infographic
You can download the full report here and the infographic here - Annual Data Protection Report 2013 SMB Edition
View ArticleInternal Backup Solution
Looking for an internal backup solution for our LAN, we have between 40-60 windows desktop users and 3 windows servers. As far as users we only want to backup their documents , desktop and .pst's. I'm...
View ArticleSerious cloud backup in Australia - Crashplan is no good.
Hey all, just a bit of a warning/question: I've got about 1.1 TB that I'm trying to backup from a single computer, and in early October liked what I saw with Crashplan in Australia. I've heard great...
View ArticleAcronis backup failure of c drive
I can't figure this out. I have two backup plans. One is for the d drive (data drive) and the other is for the c drive with the OS. The d drive back up seems to be working fine. The c drive plan used...
View ArticleHosting customers off-site backup at my house, bad idea?
I have a lot of customers that use Veeam for onsite backup, so naturally a lot of them have an offsite backup as well. If they have multiple office locations, they store the offsite at a remote...
View ArticleVeeam Backup job with multiple vms... replication possible if only 5/7 succeed?
Reseeeding some replicas to our dr site. Ive setup a backup job with 6 or 7 vms on it. If the job fails with say 5/7 successful backups, can i still use the backup file to import into veeam at the dr...
View ArticleUnitrends How-To's
I have compiled some of the Spiceworks How-To's for your Unitrends setup. It would be great to see more, so leave a comment if I have missed any, or if there are any that you would like to see. Of...
View ArticleWhat is the Best way to setup backup exec to do full backup daily?
Just wanted to know what is the best way to setup backup exec to do fully daily backup to DISK and setup another job schedule to duplicate it to Tape. Here is what I wanted to accomplish:backup file...
View ArticleUEB External Drive rotation and recovery question
Hello ladies and Gents, After doing a good amount of reading here on the Spiceworks forums I downloaded and installed UEB onto a 2012 Hyper-V server and registered it with the free licence. So far I...
View ArticleLaptop backup drive gone
Backed up new laptop to disc drive and now the recovery drive is gone. Is this normal? How do I recreate or restore the recovery drive?
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