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
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.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@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
Just the words.... if you restore the system, you are restoring all of it. It doesn't do a format and put files back one by one, it literally restores the entire system as it was with the original formatting in the image.
