We pickup a lot of clients that have had bad experiences with other IT resellers. As a result we get to see some pretty strange configurations that people have made which adversely affect the clients environment. Here’s a few that I’ve seen with ShadowProtect that really should NOT be done. Running missed jobs automatically – this is an option within ShadowProtect … [Read more...]
How to backup your WD Sentinel DX 4000?
One of the challenges that I’ve had with my 12TB WD Sentinel DX 4000 is how to go about backing it up. You see Microsoft only designed the inbuilt backup utility to handle up to 2TB of space, yet my WD Sentinel has 8.12TB of data storage capacity as you can see below. Likewise, as you can see, I have almost filled it with lots of data, so losing something could be a … [Read more...]
How can I enabled Server backup on my Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials server?
Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials is provided only through specific OEM. As such some OEM providers have chosen to disable the inbuilt backup utility that is used to backup the server itself. The reason vendors have chosen to do this is due to the fact that the Windows Backup utility does not support source drives or destination drives greater than 2TB in … [Read more...]
Why do my client computers appear offline or backups fail in SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials?
I’ve been getting quite a few reports back from people that after installing the latest Update Rollup 2 (UR2) on SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials, that the client computers have appeared offline and the backups have failed. I blogged about the release of UR2 earlier this month here. One of the things that I observed during the … [Read more...]
Free Veeam Backup & Replication NFR License
Veeam is a product that I’ve been meaning to look at for some time now since a good friend of mine introduced me to them a while back. One of the things that has stopped me however is that I’m a user of Hyper-V and not VMWare. Their latest version v6 supports Hyper-V now so it’s time to check it out. I’ve just been alerted to a free NFR offer that they have … [Read more...]