Tag archive for ‘backup’

VMWare backup / replication

Question:
1.I have two vsphere hosts, each with few vms, i need to backup the image of these vms to a storage or a disk when every i want it , how can do this ? i do not have iscsi storage or san storage.
2.How can i backup the vsphere host for any disaster recover ?
Thanks [...]

sbs 2008 bare metal restore

Question:
Hi All,
I’ve got functioning SBS 2008 server running on an HP Proliant dl360 G4p.
My question is regarding the best way to ensure I provide a quick recovery time objective. In other words I want to (in the event of a HDD disaster) be able to get the server back up and running from a backup [...]

Acronis True Image won’t create Secure Zone Partition

Question:
I’m trying to get a machine to create a Acronis Secure Zone and backup its contents too it.
Everything appears to work – after selecting the size of the Secure Zone partition the computer reboots and goes through the partition check process and launches Windows – but no Secure Zone is ever created.
The only error I’m [...]

esXpress vs vRanger vs Veeam Backup & Replication

Question:
I’ve looked at the websites of esXpress, vRanger, Veeam Backup & Replication and not surprisingly they basically all reckon they are the best VMware backup solution. I’ve spent the morning googling and read EE posts about these products but I’m still unsure which is most suitable for me.
I’m using VMware Essentials with 3 ESXi hosts [...]

Has anyone used Arkeia backup software in a mostly Windows environment?

Question:
I have 1 physical Windows 2000 server, 1 virtual Windows 2000 server which is my exchange server on a Windows 2008 host, 2 Windows 2003 server, and 1 Linux server.  Currently I am using Acronis and it is terrible.  Extremely buggy, help desk is worthless.  We want to replace it and have a very small [...]

Master Image Project

Question:
I work as a bench technician nothing fancy just a little repair shop. This is one of my projects…
I would like to speed up my service for my customers I have a lot of my services down to same day! The only thing I don’t have is operating system reinstalls mainly because I have to [...]

Backup Policys, Ideas, Suggestions for Backup Exec 11d and up

Question:
Well I was wondering what everything does in Backup Exec to make sure everything is being backed up.
1.)  What is best practice for backing up a server, so if it would crash one could recover and get the server backup as soon as possible.
2.)  When should Shadow copy compoents be used?
3.)  Are there certian folders, [...]

understanding BCV — timefinder

Question:
i got this high level doc — i am trying to understand timefinder , how does it work, how can it be used in my data warehouse env
BCV::
A simple oracle backup scenario using BCVs would be something like.
0) demount the BCVs from alternate mount points (if so mounted)
1) resilver the BCVs
2) put the database in [...]

What do you backup on a server?

Question:
Roughly speaking is it just the databases(exchange, sql) and mapped folders you backup on a server and it would like be an incremental backup so that it is only files that have changed since the last backup?
So take a company of say 10 users with a server.   They use at least sage, office, exchange, and [...]

Verifying a disaster recovery backup offsite

Question:
Hi,
we’ve recently acquired a client who has an HP storageworks as their main backup solution.  The client has a Win 2003 SBS domain controller with 5 clients, however all documents and data files are stored on the server so the workstations aren’t part of the backup schedule. The DC is installed on a HP proliant.
What [...]