Backup File Server to DAS
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@IT-ADMIN said:
having only one schedule backup of entire computer allows us to restore system image and data in the same time
Yes, but to do a FULL or Bare Metal restore, you will need to make the Recovery ISO and burn it to a USB or DVD that will boot your computer and connect you to the storage where your backups are located (IE: If they are on a NAS somewhere).
(Veeam offers to do this for you at the end of the installation or the first time you run it, if I remember right)
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@IT-ADMIN said:
having only one schedule backup of entire computer allows us to restore system image and data in the same time
That is ONE thing that it allows.
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@coliver said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
but i think it is not optimal, because if i want to restore a 10 MB excel sheet then i have to restore the whole system ??? it make no sense for me
it should be the possibility to have 2 schedule : one for system image and one for data, this is the best way to have a good backup plan, am i right ??It allows you to restore individual files from that image level backup.
I said that
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@dafyre said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
having only one schedule backup of entire computer allows us to restore system image and data in the same time
Yes, but to do a FULL or Bare Metal restore, you will need to make the Recovery ISO and burn it to a USB or DVD that will boot your computer and connect you to the storage where your backups are located (IE: If they are on a NAS somewhere).
(Veeam offers to do this for you at the end of the installation or the first time you run it, if I remember right)
yes you are right, i already created a veeam USB recovery media
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if the system broke and cannot boot, i will plug my bootable USB and point to my restore point in the NAS, and i'm done
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now i'm trying the mode : Entire Computer on my PC (about 70 GB in C and 30 GB in D), when the backup finish i will see if i can restore only one file in the D drive.
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because before i setup a schedule backup only for the C volume, i thought it was enough to backup only C volume to get system image
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by the way i have seen a strange thing when i backup my C volume, the original C volume has 70 GB and the backup has 33.6 GB ? is it compressed or what ??
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@IT-ADMIN said:
by the way i have seen a strange thing when i backup my C volume, the original C volume has 70 GB and the backup has 33.6 GB ? is it compressed or what ??
Yes, Veeam does compression.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@coliver said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
by the way i have seen a strange thing when i backup my C volume, the original C volume has 70 GB and the backup has 33.6 GB ? is it compressed or what ??
Yes, Veeam does compression.
but compression from 70 to 33.6. wooow
~50% compression? That's pretty good. At one of my last positions we had 66% compression and deduplication. I don't think %50 is out of the ordinary.
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@coliver said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
@coliver said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
by the way i have seen a strange thing when i backup my C volume, the original C volume has 70 GB and the backup has 33.6 GB ? is it compressed or what ??
Yes, Veeam does compression.
but compression from 70 to 33.6. wooow
~50% compression? That's pretty good. At one of my last positions we had 66% compression and deduplication. I don't think %50 is out of the ordinary.
great then, it will save half of our storage, i think it will do the same in the entire computer mode ?
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@IT-ADMIN said:
great then, it will save half of our storage, i think it will do the same in the entire computer mode ?
It could. I'm getting ~ 40% compression on my backups at home.
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@dafyre said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
great then, it will save half of our storage, i think it will do the same in the entire computer mode ?
It could. I'm getting ~ 40% compression on my backups at home.
Dear @dafyre, i have a technical question, if we boot from the bootable USB and restore the server using a previous system image, does this image format completely all server hard drives ???
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because it must be, because sometime we want to restore due to a virus took over the whole system and we want the system image to format everything so that we can put the restore point in a clean server
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@IT-ADMIN said:
because it must be, because sometime we want to restore due to a virus took over the whole system
I haven't had to do a full system-restore yet, but I would assume you would be able to pick and choose what to restore. If you are restoring because you got hit by a virus, I would assume you want to restore everything anyway.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@dafyre said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
great then, it will save half of our storage, i think it will do the same in the entire computer mode ?
It could. I'm getting ~ 40% compression on my backups at home.
Dear @dafyre, i have a technical question, if we boot from the bootable USB and restore the server using a previous system image, does this image format completely all server hard drives ???
That's what restoring a server would mean.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
@dafyre said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
great then, it will save half of our storage, i think it will do the same in the entire computer mode ?
It could. I'm getting ~ 40% compression on my backups at home.
Dear @dafyre, i have a technical question, if we boot from the bootable USB and restore the server using a previous system image, does this image format completely all server hard drives ???
That's what restoring a server would mean.
i see, i was unaware of how restore is made, so the restoring will format all hard drives, that is great
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what about the built in restore points in windows 7 for example, you mean that if i select a x restore point it will format the computer ???
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@IT-ADMIN said:
what about the built in restore points in windows 7 for example, you mean that if i select a x restore point it will format the computer ???
Neither case formats, both cases basically format. Format doesn't mean what you think that it means. Both cases apply a new image to the machine in roughly an identical way.
