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...]
How can I re-register my StorageCraft VSS Provider?
Recently while troubleshooting a system for a client, I ran across the situation where the StorageCraft VSS Snapshot provider disappeared. When you ran the vssadmin list providers command, you only got the list below. I then decided to see if the service was present by running the services console and it was not even listed. That’s right the StorageCraft Shadow Copy … [Read more...]
BackupAssist – BA703 Specified file selection doesn’t exist
I had the above error this week whilst configuring BackupAssist on one of my servers. I use different products all the time and right now I’m playing around with BackupAssist to see what it can do for me that other products can’t. This server is my HP Microserver that I’m using with Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. I want to use BackupAssist to test out the … [Read more...]
Toshiba R600 vs Porsche 911 Carrera… Toshiba lost.
No – this is not a test to see how fast a Toshiba can reboot vs a Porsche 911, but a story from Jeff Wilson from VelocIT Business Systems and a member of the SMB IT Professionals organisation in Australia. Jeff tells the story of an urgent call he had from a customer over a weekend where the customer needed him to look at something urgently – ie before Monday. Being … [Read more...]