@KOOLER said:

@creayt said:

Have a new laptop coming and I'd like to run something like Time Machine for OS X where I can just restall the whole system from it if possible. Any suggestions?

Veeam or wrong! (c) ...

https://www.veeam.com/endpoint-backup-free.html?ad=menu-products

🙂

Yeah, do this to a local NAS or USB attached storage.

@Danp said:

Ran across the following the other day on this page:

Free Upgrade
Limited Time Offer: As part of our continued commitment to making backup easier, we are unifying our software products. As a first step in this process, now Unitrends Virtual Backup users can get a free upgrade to Unitrends Enterprise Backup. Future versions of Unitrends data protection software will combine the enterprise-class engine in Unitrends Enterprise Backup and an enhanced version of the user interface of Unitrends Virtual Backup v8.

I assume this will eventually be available in the "free" version. Anyone know for sure? @KatieUnitrends

Unitrends Virtual Backup(UVB), Unitrends Enterprise Backup (UEB) and UnitrendsFree are three different products. The offer you mention above is for paid users of UVB only. Also, as has been stated a few times in this thread, UnitrendsFree is only licensed to protect VMware & Hyper-V clients. Please let me know what questions you may have.

@Dashrender said:

Makes what Katie just posted kinda difficult. 😉

Yeah, I've noticed that even in the Unitrends Community, which is the forum for the community edition (aka Unitrends Free). Unitrends employes have been giving different answers to the same questions. I'm wonderg if they aren't basing their answers off some internal version rather than the Unitrends free public beta. They also said on the forums that the disk based exclusions currently are not working even if selected in the GUI, I don't even have the option for that. So, I'm guessing it's that the non working features are not in the public beta.

@dafyre said:

My thinking was more along @scottalanmiller's this time... But like everything "it depends" on what the server does. For a File Server, or an application server (Exchange, et al) that we previously mentioned, to me an agent would make more sense.

However, I thought that restoring to different hardware was actually a function of the restore process, and not necessarily part of the backup process. (I guess it depends on what backup software we are talking about).

Your first, and thus main, backup should always be the entire VM for anything.

If you then need some of the features a backup from inside the OS gives you, then make secondary backups there.

Veeam can be made application aware and issue commands inside the guest to ensure the specified application is in a state for a valid recovery. I would assume that Unitrends has similar functionality, but no idea.

MySQL seems to be completely hosed. I'm going to have to rebuild the server, as restoring from backups even a week ago, even at the VM level, is not working!

@Steven said:

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SPX represents a product built from the ground up by StorageCraft developers and it provides another component in the over all StorageCraft Recover-Ability solution--a platform for building fast and reliable enterprise level DR services.

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Cheers!

WOOHOO! ABOUT TIME!

I use CrashPlan PRO on a Linux machine to mount my Synology NAS via NFS and offsite my Veeam Backups.

This is a supported method of backing up a NAS.

http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Latest/Backup/Mounting_Networked_Storage_Or_NAS_Devices_For_Backup

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@art_of_shred said:

It really does work most of the time. It's difficult to make a plug and play, one size fits all product for business computing. Every environment is unique, and every admin has their own methodology to configuring their architecture (often, that is driven by general cluelessness and/or ignorance). I think that, given the diversity of what you have to be able to adapt to, the roughly 95% success rate that I have seen with incremental forever is pretty decent. The thing that makes it somewhat aggravating is that it is a proprietary mechanism that is held rather tightly. Even inside of Unitrends, there doesn't seem to be a lot of general knowledge floating around about how to fix it when it doesn't work. The algorithms that control it are basically "unknown". It's a magical thing, powered by pixie dust, and you don't mess with it; it just kinda does its thing. If you have a Unitrends support contract, and it's giving you trouble, they can help diagnose it and get it fixed. For the rest of us...

Only complaint would be that for a backup system, 95% success rate is way, way too low for it to be a recommendation. It should be a "this is really fragile but if you want to give it a shot and monitor it closely, here it is" kind of thing at that point. It's a neat idea but if it doesn't match the reliability of traditional setups, I'd think recommendations should fall to the reliable. No aspect of IT has a stronger leaning towards consistent, conservative and reliable as backups.

@thecreativeone91 said:

Some how I Dont think anyone that can afford the paid version of UEB or an appliance is going to be using C@C for anything they care to backup.

You can get a free UEB over there, which is what I use, and lots of people here are over there, and use C@C.

Maybe writing your own backup system is not a bad idea.

Very cool, thanks.

I don't remember what doesn't support it, but that's true, from what I was told and what I have experienced. I can't speak for the KB article. Which article ID?

Posted my first question(s).

It's the curse of large companies. Once you get to a certain size you have more than enough unhappy customers (or people with a reason to make you look bad) that will be vocal in any setting that you just always have them no matter what you do. No way to be a huge company without that happening.

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I found it, it must have gone up since you posted the news. Netgear ReadyRecover