Unitrends Free Capacity
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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.
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This must be a "licensing" model of control. There are 2 options:
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You can attach a chunk of storage up to 1TB. It's your storage, so backup whatever you want as many times as you want, up to filling that 1TB.
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You are "licensed" for 1TB, so no matter what you attach in terms of storage capacity, you can only protect up to 1TB of source data. So, if you attach 10TB of storage, you can get lots of retention for your 1TB of data protected.
If "source data" is the answer, it has to be option 2.
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Sounds like it must be type 2.
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That sounds pretty positive. Maybe someone can get it installed and see the limit imposed in some manner?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Sounds like it must be type 2.
Yes, it is option 2. Excerpt from the release article:
"Unitrends Free provides hypervisor-level protection for up to 1 terabyte (TB) of data."
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@art_of_shred said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Sounds like it must be type 2.
Yes, it is option 2. Excerpt from the release article:
"Unitrends Free provides hypervisor-level protection for up to 1 terabyte (TB) of data."
Okay awesome, thanks for following up with that. That's great news then. That means long retention periods for a sizable amount of data.
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Wow, very nice. Sorry that I am late to the party. Could not be here for what appears to have been the main event.
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@StrongBad said:
Wow, very nice. Sorry that I am late to the party. Could not be here for what appears to have been the main event.
Whenever you post, I can't help reading it in the "Strong Bad" voice. Just sayin'...
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@art_of_shred said:
@StrongBad said:
Wow, very nice. Sorry that I am late to the party. Could not be here for what appears to have been the main event.
Whenever you post, I can't help reading it in the "Strong Bad" voice. Just sayin'...
Checkin' my emails!
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@art_of_shred said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Sounds like it must be type 2.
Yes, it is option 2. Excerpt from the release article:
"Unitrends Free provides hypervisor-level protection for up to 1 terabyte (TB) of data."
Okay awesome, thanks for following up with that. That's great news then. That means long retention periods for a sizable amount of data.
So, we all made it complicated by not reading the article...
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Reid-Cooper said:
@art_of_shred said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Sounds like it must be type 2.
Yes, it is option 2. Excerpt from the release article:
"Unitrends Free provides hypervisor-level protection for up to 1 terabyte (TB) of data."
Okay awesome, thanks for following up with that. That's great news then. That means long retention periods for a sizable amount of data.
So, we all made it complicated by not reading the article...
What?!? That never happens!
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Very nice. At 1TB of source data, that covers nearly any SMB.
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Sorry for the late response from us on this. The 1TB license includes the data that you're protecting, not the data that you're retaining. This means that if you have a 1TB VM that you only want to protect a few specific files which take up about 500GB, as long as you've setup the exclusions for the initial backup, you will only have used 500GB of the available 1TB of protection. If you forget to setup the exclusions before the initial backup, then your entire license will be used on this single client, and it's probably best to scrap this installation & start over. Please let me know if this answers your questions.
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@KatieUnitrends thanks for the clarification. That's awesome.
