[HECnet] A2RTR downtime

Yes, you need to be running a Windows Server product. It?s supported from Windows 2008R2 upwards. Windows 7 Enterprise is a desktop product so would not be suitable. You could also consider running Veeam Agent for Linux. This is a guest based backup system, free for use and is available on a whole number of distributions https://www.veeam.com/veeam_agent_linux_5_0_release_notes_rn.pdf backup exec ?? ooh dear. What a clanger of a product, though we?ve all been there! The other product which has recently caught my attention is UrBackup. Cross platform support and nice web UI. CLI support as well. https://www.urbackup.org/index.html I?m thinking of spinning it up for testing in my home lab. There is also ElkarBackup https://www.elkarbackup.org/ this is Linux based and connects to other boxes using SSH and rsync to backup the data. Cheers, Wiz!! From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf Of Thomas DeBellis Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2021 9:30 AM To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] A2RTR downtime By "Windows Server", do you mean Windows Server Edition or some version of Windows set up to have a server role? In particular, I have a Windows 7 Enterprise machine that I have in mind for this. Production life means a lot; I didn't mess around when I did that. The server was Window 2000 Server running Backup Exec that had ECC memory, triple redundant power supplies, multi-UPS, four disk RAID 5 plus two hot spares along and a tape loader library. It also had attached terabyte USB storage if the auto-loader when down. I absolutely was not interested in failures. I ultimately didn't particularly care for Backup Exec, but it was what I had to use. ________________________________ On 10/19/21 9:06 AM, David Moylan wrote: I?ll also push a vote for Veeam Community Edition. I run a VMware ESXi box which contains a mix of windows and linux VM?s (primarily linux). I use Veeam to backup all the VM?s to a NAS. As mentioned, you?ll need to run this up on a Windows server. I use Veeam in my production life as well as run a Veeam cloud backup server for my clients offsite copies. I?ve been using this for many years and it?s one of the best VM backup products on the market. For my office backup we put the Veeam backups on a Synology NAS and run NAS to NAS replica between my office to another NAS at a co-workers house. Cheers, Wiz!! From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE<mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE><mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf Of Brian Hechinger Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2021 10:46 PM To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE<mailto:hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Subject: Re: [HECnet] A2RTR downtime A bit late to this party, but if you're looking for an offsite backup service I've been using Jotta Cloud and so far it's pretty nice. Natively supports linux. Not too expensive either. I'm paying ?7.99/month for unlimited storage. -brian ________________________________ On 18/10/21 16:53, Zane Healy wrote: Take a look at Veeam, specifically the ?Community Edition?. You should also be able to take a look at the "Veeam Agent for Linux?, as you can simply run it on your Linux box, and point it at an NFS share or USB disk. The community edition of Veeam Backup and Recovery allows you to backup 10 Physical or Virtual systems for free. It?s only downside is that it needs to run on Windows. I do nightly Veeam backups of all the VMware VM?s that run my virtual DEC systems. This has saved me in at least one case. Bare metal Veeam restores are an option, since you asked about ?Bare Metal?, but that?s something I?ve not tested. Zane ________________________________ On Oct 17, 2021, at 12:53 PM, Thomas DeBellis <tommytimesharing at gmail.com<mailto:tommytimesharing at gmail.com>> wrote: Fourth (and final) concerns RAID in an indirect way. My Tops-20 systems are backed up on a quarterly basis and those backups compressed and moved to alternate storage. However, I have never backed up any of the Ubuntu systems and, although I am running SSD media, some of this is quite old and I'm starting to feel uncomfortable out it. Were you aware of any winning backup solutions? I can restore Tops-20 to bare metal, but I really don't remember how to do this for Unix (although I did know it for Ultrix at one point). So I starting looking. D?j? Dup looks like it won't quite do what I need, but since it uses duplicity, I started looking at that. Remember, even a RAID is no substitute for backup. This was probably more true in the days where a hardware RAID controller error introduced a single point of failure; it may still be true for a software RAID.