I want to take a moment to say thank you to Linus from BackupAssist. Linus is not only the CEO of the company, but also the lead architect in their software and a really nice guy. One of Correct Solutions customers suddenly had a very strange issue with their Hyper-V server. Backup was being done using BackupAssist on the Hyper-V host and the customer was … [Read more...]
SBS 2008 and Windows Server Backup is limited to 2TB in total
SBS 2008 uses the inbuilt Windows Server Backup under the covers of their wizards. This backup is a block level backup that stores it’s information as a VHD file on the destination disk no matter if it’s on a USB hard drive or a remote drive share. The SBS team have placed a wizard over the top of this for configuration, but essentially under the covers, it’s just … [Read more...]
Client PC Backup in SBS 2011 (SBSv7) is now available.
Today Microsoft announced what I think is some very cool reuse of their technology that will have massive benefits for SBS 2011 and even non SBS environments. Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials is a great new product from Microsoft that uses the combination of Windows Server 2008 R2 as a base and adds in the Client Backup technology from SBS 2011 … [Read more...]
ShadowProtect IT Edition used in Disaster Recovery
Ok – I’ve done a fair bit of work with StorageCraft ShadowProtect over the years – possibly even being one of the first in Australia to test them out. I use ShadowProtect in many of our customer environments, sometimes as the only backup product, other times in conjunction with other products. It really depends on the specific scenarios that we have as to what we … [Read more...]
SBS 2008 Disk Backup Performance
I’ve heard people talk about the impact of backups on their server. With disk based backups being more common place these days, I thought I’d take a look at one on my test server. This screenshot shows a base Windows 2008 server doing a backup direct to a USB 2.0 connected 2TB drive (1 x 1TB in RAID0 configuration). You can see the low level impact that this is having on the … [Read more...]