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    Unitrends Redefines "Free" Virtual Backup

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    • DominicaD
      Dominica
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      Wow, this is very cool. I have a question, though. I understood everything else in the description, but what's a socket?

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      • coliverC
        coliver @Dominica
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        @Dominica said:

        Wow, this is very cool. I have a question, though. I understood everything else in the description, but what's a socket?

        Processor socket I assume. How many physical processors can be on a machine.

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        • ?
          A Former User @Dominica
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          @Dominica said:

          Wow, this is very cool. I have a question, though. I understood everything else in the description, but what's a socket?

          CPU Socket.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            http://www.sheepguardingllama.com/2008/03/cpus-cores-and-threads-how-many-processors-do-i-have/

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            • DashrenderD
              Dashrender @JaredBusch
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              @JaredBusch said:

              @Minion-Queen
              I'll be testing it out within a few days. this whole packing the house to move thing is highly disruptive.

              Full disclosure: I have always used Veeam over Unitrends for the paid solutions due to pricing.

              This may well disrupt that. Almost 100% of my client base will not need more than 1 TB of backup storage.

              Agreed, I have client that I will be able to move them away from a secondary machine they currently use to backup their VM host with Veeam. Now to see how it handles rotating NAS storage devices.

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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said:

                @thecreativeone91 said:

                Looks like you don't need to even add local space directly to the UEB anymore if you are using some kind of network storage for backups which is nice (aside from the OS space of course)

                That would be great for installing to a VM and having backups go to a NAS device or something out on the network.

                This is the only way I can use something like this. The cost of storage inside the host would be to expensive for me.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                  @Dashrender said:

                  Agreed, I have client that I will be able to move them away from a secondary machine they currently use to backup their VM host with Veeam. Now to see how it handles rotating NAS storage devices.

                  In what manner do you wish to rotate them? It's not common to rotate NAS.

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                  • DominicaD
                    Dominica @coliver
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                    @coliver Okay, that's what I was thinking it probably meant, but I'm not always up on the lingo. Like every time @scottalanmiller says "ack" to me I think he's complaining, but he's actually using it as "acknowledge".

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                      A Former User @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      @Dashrender said:

                      Agreed, I have client that I will be able to move them away from a secondary machine they currently use to backup their VM host with Veeam. Now to see how it handles rotating NAS storage devices.

                      In what manner do you wish to rotate them? It's not common to rotate NAS.

                      You could Archive with an external Device. But, not sure how you'd do that with a NAS. Too many variable to keep backups reliable there.

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                        A Former User @Dominica
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                        @Dominica said:

                        Like every time @scottalanmiller says "ack" to me I think he's complaining, but he's actually using it as "acknowledge".

                        I would probably think that too.

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                        • coliverC
                          coliver @Dominica
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                          @Dominica said:

                          @coliver Okay, that's what I was thinking it probably meant, but I'm not always up on the lingo. Like every time @scottalanmiller says "ack" to me I think he's complaining, but he's actually using it as "acknowledge".

                          I think @scottalanmiller is unique there... I've never heard anyone use "ack" outside of a programming language, CLI, or TCP handshake.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @coliver
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                            @coliver said:

                            I think @scottalanmiller is unique there... I've never heard anyone use "ack" outside of a programming language, CLI, or TCP handshake.

                            I didn't make it up. I learned it from company after company that used it extensively.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              I hear it most with people who get paged a lot and need to "ack" the alert.

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                              • DashrenderD
                                Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                @Dashrender said:

                                Agreed, I have client that I will be able to move them away from a secondary machine they currently use to backup their VM host with Veeam. Now to see how it handles rotating NAS storage devices.

                                In what manner do you wish to rotate them? It's not common to rotate NAS.

                                My client refuses to push backups to an offsite over the internet. The cheapest option we found for them 4 years ago was Veeam and several single drive NASs. Each one assigned to a day of the week. They would be rotated offsite daily. It's worked well enough.

                                I've really tried to get them to allow a cloud, or even VPN to the owners home based backup (replication actually) of the local backups, but they just don't 'trust the internet.' Even though they use the internet for email and nearly everything else. I stopped fighting them and just found them a solution.

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                                • DashrenderD
                                  Dashrender @Dominica
                                  last edited by

                                  @Dominica said:

                                  @coliver Okay, that's what I was thinking it probably meant, but I'm not always up on the lingo. Like every time @scottalanmiller says "ack" to me I think he's complaining, but he's actually using it as "acknowledge".

                                  Now that's just funny!

                                  But it only works because you're techie too, and even then it doesn't really sound like it works well 😉

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
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                                    Always works at the office 🙂

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                                    • DominicaD
                                      Dominica @Dashrender
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                                      @Dashrender said:

                                      I stopped fighting them and just found them a solution.

                                      This is a mark of IT maturity. You can't always convince a client to follow your recommendations, and so the "right" way is sometimes just doing what the client wants.

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                                        A Former User @Dominica
                                        last edited by

                                        @Dominica said:

                                        @Dashrender said:

                                        I stopped fighting them and just found them a solution.

                                        This is a mark of IT maturity. You can't always convince a client to follow your recommendations, and so the "right" way is sometimes just doing what the client wants.

                                        Are you saying @scottalanmiller isn't mature because he doesn't like to give up? 😉

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @A Former User
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                                          @thecreativeone91 she's just saying I'm not mature. No specific reason.

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                                          • ?
                                            A Former User
                                            last edited by A Former User

                                            Well, I've downloaded it twice just incase it was corrupt.

                                            fail.PNG

                                            No error information on unitrends side, nothing useful in the ESXi logs. Maybe it doesn't work on FreeESXi 6.0 for somereason.

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