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...]
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...]
Cool Support Option from BackupAssist
I don’t often need to call for support, but when I do I try to get all the information together before I make the call. Today I needed to make my first real call for support to BackupAssist. The key thing here though is that I didn’t actually even call them and I still got the answers. BackupAssist has this little option in the bottom right of the screen called … [Read more...]
And they say that Tape Backups are dead…
There’s a lot of news in the media at the moment about massive system hacks by a number of rogue hacker groups. One of the local ones recently has been domain registrar DistributeIT based here in Australia. Their systems were not only hacked, but totally and utterly destroyed by the hackers. The most recent news article on this has DistributeIT talking about … [Read more...]
Are RDX Backup Drives supported on SBS 2011?
RDX Backup Drives are the cool little units that have an interchangeable cartridge which is in fact a small 2.5” Hard Drive. The come from a variety of vendors including Dell and HP and are commonly sold with backup software designed to work with them. You can see below Disk 6 is a 300GB RDX drive and this is how it appears in Disk Manager – note that it shows as a … [Read more...]