New Backup Solution In My New Virtualized Environment
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@scottalanmiller said:
Unitrends free should definitely handle the servers. No agents needed. We just need to figure out where an agent error is coming from.
About to fire it back up (fingers crossed it didn't cause the wear on the host but doubtful it did) and let you know where I stand on it.
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Cool. Keep us in the loop. If you need Unitrends help ping @art_of_shred
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I got to add a client in Unitrends Free and I get this:
Summary: Error communicating with system.
Cause: Call was unsuccessful.
Detail: [System] Remote agent installation is not supported with Windows 8.1 or 2012R2. Please download and install the agent from the Unitrends website onto the Windows system.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Cool. Keep us in the loop. If you need Unitrends help ping @art_of_shred
I've also pinged him. I was going to try the Unitrends Forum but not sure if the free edition is even supported there.
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Free edition is fully supported with Unitrends support. You can open a ticket.
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Did you try downloads on their site? Is there a client there to try?
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There are 2 places to get the agent for Windows. You can get them on the web site: http://www.unitrends.com/support/latest-agent-releases , or you can pull them from the share on the appliance (UEB). If you go to your server, open up <Run> and enter \192.168.1.50 (ex. ...it's whatever the IP of the UEB is) you can see the Windows Agent Share folder and get it from there. There will be a 32 and 64 bit option, as well as the bare metal agent, which is only for physical Windows platforms (not virtual).
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that was 2 back slashes, not one, but even when I go in an try to edit the post, it still only shows one. Not sure why it did that...
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Use three backslashes to display two. The first one escapes.
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@art_of_shred said:
There are 2 places to get the agent for Windows. You can get them on the web site: http://www.unitrends.com/support/latest-agent-releases , or you can pull them from the share on the appliance (UEB). If you go to your server, open up <Run> and enter \192.168.1.50 (ex. ...it's whatever the IP of the UEB is) you can see the Windows Agent Share folder and get it from there. There will be a 32 and 64 bit option, as well as the bare metal agent, which is only for physical Windows platforms (not virtual).
Excellent...this helped...was able to load the agent on my virtual Domain Controller...now next question...
How do I set up a connection to my NAS to store the backups? Does it need to be a VDISK or can I use a network path to the NAS? Wasn't sure what option sets up Backup Destination.
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Follow this...
Then this...
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@art_of_shred said:
Follow this...
Then this...
Excellent...thanks! Freeing up space from my NAS to make room to test this...
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So, I will see where this leads over the next few days...
I assume I should also have a solution for my Host right? But the free Unitrends won't take care of that...correct?
I'll be keeping my current solution for now to backup SQL.
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As long as you have the host well documented it's less important. There should be nothing installed in the host other than Hyper-V. Then document whatever networks you setup, etc.
If it dies, use that information to rebuild your host, then you install Unitrends from either a DVD back of the OVF or redownload it, then point at your backups and restore.
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@garak0410 said:
I assume I should also have a solution for my Host right? But the free Unitrends won't take care of that...correct?
No. Don't back up the host. There should be nothing there to protect.
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Question about backup drives in Unitrends. Does the drive have to be an attached VDISK or can backups go to a network location? I am trying to create a VDISK on our NAS to attach to the Unitrends VM and it drive creation is just CREEPING...terrible slow. I've checked the storage options and they all appear to have to be VDISKS unless I am missing something.
Thanks...
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You can create a CIFS or NFS share on your NAS to attach storage that way. Here's how...
http://support.unitrends.com/ikm/questions.php?questionid=936
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@garak0410 said:
@art_of_shred said:
You can create a CIFS or NFS share on your NAS to attach storage that way. Here's how...
http://support.unitrends.com/ikm/questions.php?questionid=936
This helps...now if I can get past this point, I'll be good:
The login info is correct but I am sure there is something missing...
It wanted CIFS...working now...moving on...
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When trying to run some test backups, now getting this:
"[System] file-level backups not supported in Free Edition License."
Getting confused now in this free license...I've looked at this but it doesn't help: http://support.unitrends.com/ikm/questions.php?questionid=809
