Working onsite today with client and they had run EXTREMELY low on disk space on the C: drive of one of there servers. In fact they got down to 64KB free, and I was surprised the server was still running. The client had ShadowProtect 5.0.1 installed and it’s been running fine for some time now. I cleared up 5GB of free space by deleting some log files, and then did … [Read more...]
StorageCraft Deep Dive Video
You will want to check this out – it’s a video done by StorageCraft Australia Guru Jack Alsop on how to configure ShadowProtect correctly to work with Exchange servers … [Read more...]
Tips to configure ShadowProtect correctly
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 upgrade StorageCraft ShadowProtect to the most current version
StorageCraft have this week released 4.2.7.19756 of ShadowProtect. Now I’m in the task of testing it on a few of our test and production systems before we launch into an upgrade across all of our client sites. Here’s how I do it. First up – review the release notes. It looks like they are putting them here now. You want to verify what is being fixed to … [Read more...]
Troubleshooting ShadowProtect Backups–Continuous Incremental Backups
Here’s a few tips for troubleshooting backup failures when using StorageCraft ShadowProtect that I’ve developed. Clarify the exact error message – you can get this from the backup job itself, if you select the backup job and then select the Details button. Verify the existing backup image – when doing continuous incremental backups, the next backup you do relies on not only … [Read more...]