@scottalanmiller Replacement as (rather than use vanilla rsync) I'll go with this version.

I've used rsnapshot a good bit and it's a really nice tool for simple backups.

@aaronstuder

Tried it today in Windows enviroment for both server and client, and while it is easy to setup it took forever for 1 image BU to complete. not sure why was not limited in CPU or RAM, and after 45 mins I stopped it and didnt care about it anymore, the client was fresh windows with 14 GB on C :

@DustinB3403 said in MariaDB Backup and Move:

@scottalanmiller cool, so if I am already collecting the rest of the database (see previous topic from today using rsync) then backing up the mariadb should grab what is left.

Then all that would be left is to push the backup to an secondary system and test that all works.

In theory. I've had unreliable recoveries from that. I don't know any method to get 100% backup if that code is stored in the database.

Reinstallation fixed it but I don't know why.

@iroal
Great minds think alike !

Thanks for the addition, I'm researching right now and blat.exe seems very worthy looking and simple with good reviews on its Sourceforge page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/blat/

@scottalanmiller said in Share Your Backup Failure Stories to Celebrate Backup Day:

@RojoLoco said in Share Your Backup Failure Stories to Celebrate Backup Day:

Backup Exec....

Say no more, we feel your pain.

Sadly we have that in one area as well. I don't understand why.

I've tried to import the Multi-Tenant Director .ova into XS & convert the .ova into vhd & vhdx.
It will not boot in XS or Hyper-V, I get a black screen.
It boots in vmWare Workstation.

Nakivo support says the .ova is ONLY for use in vmWare (not for XS)

@JaredBusch Understood. Thx for the detail.

We use azure backup in house for our Windows file servers. I am not the head of the Azure backup group but passed this to my coworker and we will be looking into it. Will report back what we find

It's true that you can make stateless systems without DevOps tooling and approaches. But the nature and assumptions of those systems is that you cannot. Just letting arbitrary logins (even of administrators) can undermine that. One of the beauties of the pure DevOps model is the lack of logins. Much like functional programming.

@Dashrender said in When a Backup Becomes an Archive:

@BRRABill said in When a Backup Becomes an Archive:

@Dashrender said in When a Backup Becomes an Archive:

Way to flip it back on them.

Did you drop an imaginary mike afterwards?

Knowing Scott, he did. Just in his own way.

Knowing Scott he probably had a real one in his pocket, which he pulled out, then dropped.

@BRRABill said in Backups - how much does backup performance matter to you?:

@scottalanmiller said in Backups - how much does backup performance matter to you?:

@BRRABill said in Backups - how much does backup performance matter to you?:

All a function of time and need and money.

Only time and money, need in a business is always a function of money.

I mean all of them combine.

You are correct.

Need dictates the other two.

Well, the other two dictate need. Businesses aren't a "need" based thing. They have a goal: profits. Backup restore time is a discussion about time. So the technical piece gives us the time axis and that we are talking about a business gives us a cost one. That's it. The idea of "need" should never really come up in a business, businesses never need to do anything. They desire profits and all actions should reflect that. The concept of needs only serves to confuse people from the singular mission.

Urrrrr.....................😕

a major thing on my #ToDoList

@ScaleLegion said in St. Louis folks...:

Not exactly a Legion event, but we'll be at O'Fallon Brewery this evening from 6-9:30 with Barracuda. Feel free to stop in for a brew or two and learn a bit. I'll be talking community with attendees on the sidelines.

Tesla has donated two cars for test driving, although you would be a passenger along with a weekend Tesla giveaway!

Register here: https://www.barracuda.com/events/invitation/MarylandHeights1110

Thank you,
Scale Legion

St Louis is holding their SpiceCorp tonight in south St Louis county or I would be all over this.

@Dashrender said in Deploying Veeam Endpoint Backup on Windows with PDQ Deploy:

I'm not sure where else to mention this, but Chocolately would be another deployment method to consider.

Yes, no native package, though. So we need to make one for it. That would be my personally preferred method, of course.