Unitrends Free Capacity
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There is a lot of people talking about Unitrends Free with you guys sitting in the break out session! When they say that the free offer is for up to 1TB, does that mean 1TB of "backup" storage or 1TB of total storage.
If I have a full terabyte to backup, would I only be able to store one copy or would I get to backup many of copies that varied over time? How do I plan for overhead?
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Normally it's based on Backup storage. meaning your UEB can only have 1TB of storage attached to it. You can do archiving I believe even on the free version.
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Just got an answer right from @KatieUnitrends 1tb of data as many backups as you want. That is total storage.
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@Minion-Queen said:
Just got an answer right from @KatieUnitrends 1tb of data as many backups as you want. That is total storage.
That's not more clear. Is it one TB of my data and I can end up with 2TB of storage used attached to the UEB?
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@Minion-Queen said:
Just got an answer right from @KatieUnitrends 1tb of data as many backups as you want. That is total storage.
1TB of data - That is the total Storage
With as many backups as you want..
This is how I read it,.. but could be incorrect.
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@g.jacobse said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Just got an answer right from @KatieUnitrends 1tb of data as many backups as you want. That is total storage.
1TB of data - That is the total Storage
With as many backups as you want..
This is how I read it,.. but could be incorrect.
But what does "total storage" mean to you? Total storage on which side of the UEB? On the front end (1TB of YOUR data) or on the back end (1TB of backup storage.) Total storage doesn't mean anything unless you are saying you can only have 500GB on one side and create 500GB of backups from it.
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@g.jacobse said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Just got an answer right from @KatieUnitrends 1tb of data as many backups as you want. That is total storage.
1TB of data - That is the total Storage
With as many backups as you want..
This is how I read it,.. but could be incorrect.
But what does "total storage" mean to you? Total storage on which side of the UEB? On the front end (1TB of YOUR data) or on the back end (1TB of backup storage.) Total storage doesn't mean anything unless you are saying you can only have 500GB on one side and create 500GB of backups from it.
From how I read it, this is 1TB of backed-up storage. Meaning you can backup that 500GB twice.
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I think its the total source data
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@g.jacobse said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Just got an answer right from @KatieUnitrends 1tb of data as many backups as you want. That is total storage.
1TB of data - That is the total Storage
With as many backups as you want..
This is how I read it,.. but could be incorrect.
But what does "total storage" mean to you? Total storage on which side of the UEB? On the front end (1TB of YOUR data) or on the back end (1TB of backup storage.) Total storage doesn't mean anything unless you are saying you can only have 500GB on one side and create 500GB of backups from it.
Total storage is the storage connected to the UEB.
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@Minion-Queen said:
I think its the total source data
That would be awesome. Because then it is predictable and that means a lot more. If I have much data changing or I want to keep long term backups, I need a lot more backup storage than source storage.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Total storage is the storage connected to the UEB.
That's unfortunate. Sure you can compress and dedube, but with any amount of delta rate your backups will expand considerably.
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Total storage is the storage connected to the UEB.
That's unfortunate. Sure you can compress and dedube, but with any amount of delta rate your backups will expand considerably.
@art_of_shred would know for sure but, I am pretty sure that's how they do it.
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Ok solid it IS the source Data!
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It can get a little confusing, the way storage limits are referred to. If you have a "licensed" storage amount, that is calling out how much data you can protect. Your actual storage is the landing zone for backups. With a UEB, the attached storage is a landing zone, not pointing to how much data can be protected. With 1 TB, you can get as many fulls, diffs, incs, etc. that will fit in that space. You can also count on some data reduction in your favor (deduplication/compression). On the "licensed" storage amount, I believe the calculation is made for the protected data size based on a 30-day retention with Incremental Forever as the primary strategy.
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@Minion-Queen said:
Ok solid it IS the source Data!
For me personally - I'm teetering on the edge with this amount. Time to see what I can get rid of...
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This isn't getting any more clear.
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@Reid-Cooper said:
This isn't getting any more clear.
Bahaha. I always thought it was like @art_of_shred said but it could have changed.
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@Reid-Cooper I think I need a diagram. I thought I had understood it originally but not anymore.
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As per Ian here at the Unitrends booth it is Source data.
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@Minion-Queen said:
As per Ian here at the Unitrends booth it is Source data.
So you have the following:
server 1 - 200 GB
Server 2 - 400 GB
Server 3 - 500 GBwith the free version you can backup:
1 and 2 because they = 600 GB
or 1 and 3 because they = 700 GB
or 2 and 3 because they = 900 GB,
but not 1, 2 and 3 because they = 1.1 TB.From the sounds of it, your backup storage could be 10 TB if you wanted, allowing you to have many incrementals of the above backups.
