Backup File Server to DAS

@Dashrender said:

@dafyre said:

Yeah. The Desktop backup tool is the Endpoint Recovery free. It does work great on Windows Server installs as well. (Don't know if it works on Windows core installs or not though).

But I dont' think you can schedule it - well maybe you can with PowerShell.

You can schedule it via the GUI.

JaredBusch

@Dashrender have you even ever installed the product? Where are you getting your information?

JaredBusch

Dashrender

I did say maybe.. OK OK I'll stop posting.
lol

IT-ADMIN

great, thank you very much @JaredBusch
i just read on their website that this software is designed to be installed on workstation like windows 7 or 8, can i install it on windows server 2008 R2 ??

JaredBusch

@IT-ADMIN said:

great, thank you very much @JaredBusch
i just read on their website that this software is designed to be installed on workstation like windows 7 or 8, can i install it on windows server 2008 R2 ??

I have never needed to, but unless the software itself actually stops you, there is no reason it will not work.

IT-ADMIN

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

scottalanmiller

@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.

dafyre

@IT-ADMIN -- I am running Veeam on Server 2012 R2, so I'd say try to install it and see. If you have a network share on your NAS with enough available space, Veeam should back up to it with no problems.

scottalanmiller

Normal backup software does not have NAS limitations like Windows does. Windows Backup is extremely limited and basic and is doing something weird and lazily causes the issue requiring a block device.

IT-ADMIN

@scottalanmiller said:

@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