Backup File Server to DAS

IT-ADMIN

@IT-ADMIN said:

I've learned also that it perform block level backup, can I backup my files in daily basis incrementally to a NAS???

Which what tool? Nearly all backup is done to NAS and nearly all is incremental. As a general question, yes of course. But specifically we would need to know what tool you are going to use. You've already stated in the original post and reiterated again and again that Windows cannot do incremental to a NAS, so we have to assume you are asking about something else.... but what? Veeam? If so, yes.

Yes Dear Scott, i will use Veeam, i'm really pleased with it, it is free and can do daily incremental backup of my volumes to a NAS and what really impressed me is that i can even do incremental daily system image backup, something which is really great and also i can create a veeam USB recovery media in case of disaster and boot from USB and recover my system from NAS (which have many system restore point)
WOW that is really awesome, thank you for advising me to change my WBS, it is very very limited comparing to Veeam
i never imagine that i can find such powerful backup solution like veeam for free, wow

scottalanmiller

Okay great, with Veeam you can use NAS for sure. That is the way that I would go.

IT-ADMIN

but how such a friendly powerful tool like veeam can be free ?? incredible

scottalanmiller

@IT-ADMIN said:

but how such a friendly powerful tool like veeam can be free ?? incredible

Many of the big features and the ability to scale are not free. Veeam makes a LOT of money

IT-ADMIN

i never imagine i can find such tool for free, therefor i was sticking to WBS in my first posts

IT-ADMIN

@dafyre said:

Veeam Endpoint Recovery free works on physical devices. 8-) I have it running on my office machine here as well as at home.

i really thank you very much for your suggestion Dear @dafyre, i appreciate it

scottalanmiller

@IT-ADMIN said:

i never imagine i can find such tool for free, therefor i was sticking to WBS in my first posts

At small size, many of the best tools are free. They want small companies to try them and get to know them before growing into big companies that can pay for them.

Unitrends is free at this size too, if you were virtualized.

IT-ADMIN

yeah you are right Dear Scott, that is their philosophy
but unitrend doesn't support XenServer for free, isn't it ?
because i have one XenSever Host (2 VM guest in it) and till now i didn't put a backup solution for it !

scottalanmiller

@IT-ADMIN said:

but unitrend doesn't support XenServer for free, isn't it ?

No, because their free product and their XenServer product are completely different products. They don't have a free XenServer product yet after having bought the company that makes that software.

Danp

Unitrends 9.0 is supposed to support all major hypervisors, including XenServer. It's currently undergoing beta testing...

scottalanmiller

@Danp said:

Unitrends 9.0 is supposed to support all major hypervisors, including XenServer. It's currently undergoing beta testing...

Even KVM?

coliver

@scottalanmiller said:

@Danp said:

Unitrends 9.0 is supposed to support all major hypervisors, including XenServer. It's currently undergoing beta testing...

Even KVM?

Nope

Unitrends 9.0 includes protection for all three major Hypervisors, vSphere from VMWare, Hyper-V for Microsoft and XenServer from Citrix.

Is XenServer still from Citrix I thought the Xen Foundation took it over?

scottalanmiller

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Danp said:

Unitrends 9.0 is supposed to support all major hypervisors, including XenServer. It's currently undergoing beta testing...

Even KVM?

Nope

Unitrends 9.0 includes protection for all three major Hypervisors, vSphere from VMWare, Hyper-V for Microsoft and XenServer from Citrix.

Is XenServer still from Citrix I thought the Xen Foundation took it over?

So not all major. LOL

Xen IS Linux Foundation. XenServer is Citrix "when using that name" but it is just a rebranding of the XCP from Linux Foundation. Citrix makes extra tools but not Xen or XenServer.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Danp said:

Unitrends 9.0 is supposed to support all major hypervisors, including XenServer. It's currently undergoing beta testing...

Even KVM?

Nope

Unitrends 9.0 includes protection for all three major Hypervisors, vSphere from VMWare, Hyper-V for Microsoft and XenServer from Citrix.

Is XenServer still from Citrix I thought the Xen Foundation took it over?

So not all major. LOL

Xen IS Linux Foundation. XenServer is Citrix "when using that name" but it is just a rebranding of the XCP from Linux Foundation. Citrix makes extra tools but not Xen or XenServer.

Now I'm lost again - so XenServer is Citrix, but do people still install XenServer? or just Xen? Like @coliver I thought Citrix gave their code/project back to the Linux Foundation... is that not the case?

coliver

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Danp said:

Unitrends 9.0 is supposed to support all major hypervisors, including XenServer. It's currently undergoing beta testing...

Even KVM?

Nope

Unitrends 9.0 includes protection for all three major Hypervisors, vSphere from VMWare, Hyper-V for Microsoft and XenServer from Citrix.

Is XenServer still from Citrix I thought the Xen Foundation took it over?

So not all major. LOL

Xen IS Linux Foundation. XenServer is Citrix "when using that name" but it is just a rebranding of the XCP from Linux Foundation. Citrix makes extra tools but not Xen or XenServer.

Now I'm lost again - so XenServer is Citrix, but do people still install XenServer? or just Xen? Like @coliver I thought Citrix gave their code/project back to the Linux Foundation... is that not the case?

http://xenserver.org/about-xenserver-open-source.html

It looks like it is still managed by Citrix?

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Danp said:

Unitrends 9.0 is supposed to support all major hypervisors, including XenServer. It's currently undergoing beta testing...

Even KVM?

Nope

Unitrends 9.0 includes protection for all three major Hypervisors, vSphere from VMWare, Hyper-V for Microsoft and XenServer from Citrix.

Is XenServer still from Citrix I thought the Xen Foundation took it over?

So not all major. LOL

Xen IS Linux Foundation. XenServer is Citrix "when using that name" but it is just a rebranding of the XCP from Linux Foundation. Citrix makes extra tools but not Xen or XenServer.

Now I'm lost again - so XenServer is Citrix, but do people still install XenServer? or just Xen? Like @coliver I thought Citrix gave their code/project back to the Linux Foundation... is that not the case?

XenServer is a brand name that Citrix slaps on XCP. XCP is made by Linux, XenServer is provided by Citrix. Citrix makes nothing that anyone uses.

coliver

Here is the site for the Linux Foundation managed version. http://xenproject.org/

Dashrender

OK, I think - so did @DustinB3403 install Xen or XenServer?

DustinB3403

XenServer 6.5 from the linux foundation.

Dashrender

@DustinB3403 said:

XenServer 6.5 from the linux foundation.

and I'm back to being confused.

@scottalanmiller said:

XenServer is a brand name that Citrix slaps on XCP. XCP is made by Linux, XenServer is provided by Citrix. Citrix makes nothing that anyone uses.

Does this not mean that XenServer is Citrix, but then Scott says no one uses anything Citrix makes.