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For a customer project, I was looking for backup software with support for XenServer. Unfortunately, during my search, I discovered that not many vendors support hypervisors other than VMware and Microsoft. Nevertheless, I found a good solution and will discuss it briefly in this blog. Vinchin Backup & Recovery is a software backup solution that […]
It’s very easy to backup all your data on your QNAP NAS to the public Cloud from Azure. In this blogpost I’m describing all the necessary steps. Create A Storage account First make sure you have an active Azure account with a subscription. You can easily sign up for a one month free trial period. […]
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For testing purposes I quickly wanted to create a master image using a VHD file. The Master VM was running on VMware so I decided to use the Windows 10 built-in functionality. Just run the sdclt.exe command with administrator privileges. (This was introduced some time ago with Windows Vista). Confirm your backup settings: Sleect the […]
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Recently Nakivo released version 7 of Nakivo Backup & Replication! The new version has the following features: Support for Hyper-V 2016 and 2012 (R2) Support for VMware vSphere 6.5 Active Directory integration Skip swap files and partitions You can find out more about v7 here. […]
Cloud backup (online data backup) is a service where data is remotely maintaned, managed and backed up. This service allows the use of storing backup files online, so that they can be accessed from any location due to the use of the internet. More and more people are backupping their data to the Cloud. Many […]
Making backups of virtual machines running on Azure using snapshot technology is a nice feature. But sometimes you don’t want to revert the whole snapshot but only want to restore a single file. Now this is possible. It uses the same backup/Snapshot technology you probably are already using. Open the virtual machine properties in the […]
Some time ago I wrote about the V7 beta version here. Altaro released their final edition of v7 recently. Some of the key features of version 7: Support for Windows 2016 Augmented Inline Deduplication Boot from Back-up New interface/GUI (in comparison to v6) Support for Windows 2016 With v7 Altaro officially supports (with enhanced security […]
With the amount of ransomware cases seeming to increase every day this is coming more and more a problem. Ransomware cost hundreds of millions in damages worldwide en is increasing rapidly. Modern total data protection solutions take snapshot based incremental backups on frequently based. if your business suffers a ransomware attack, this technology allows you […]
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Hereby my review of Vembu BDR version 3.6. Vembu BDR Suite is an all-in-one universal solution for backing up your VMware and Hyper-V environments as well as physical servers. Vembu BDR Suite products cover backup & recovery of VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Physical Windows Servers Desktops/Laptops, File Servers, Applications like MS Exchange, Active Directory, SQL Server, […]
If you are a VMUG member, VMware vExpert, VCP, VSP, VTSP, or VCI you can receive a FREE two-socket Not For Resale (NFR) license of NAKIVO Backup & Replication for one year and use it in your home or work lab. The NFR licenses are available for non-production use only, including educational, lab testing, evaluation, […]
Veeam® is happy to provide a free NFR license (1 year, 2 sockets) to all VMware vExperts, MVPs, VTEC members, Certified Engineers and Trainers*. This license allows for non-production use of Veeam Availabilty Suite™ 9,5 in your home lab, without any feature limitations. The license works for both VMware and Hyper-V environments. Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 […]
Backup is more and more important. That’s why there are several company’s proving great products for this. Nakivo has their Backup & Replication tool for VMware (and Amazon but that will not be covered right now) and in this blogpost you find my experiences. Nakivo backup & Replication (NBR from now..) comes in different distribution […]
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I’m using Altaro VM Backup for my Hyper-V whitebox environment for a couple of years now. Recently I tested the latest version. Hereby my experiences. Their latest version of VM Backup changed in comparison to previous versions. I noticed several new features/improvements and a slightly improved UI. (Some of) Altaro VM Backup features: – Built […]
Great news from my sponsor VEEAM. When you are a vExpert, MVP, VTEC Member, Certified Engineer and/or Trainer you have the option to receive a free NFR key (2 sockets) of the VEEAM Availability Suite V9. Click on their banner right of this page! […]
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Like many other people I use a Synology NAS for back-up purposes. All my backup data and other files is stored on the single device. But what when there is a problem with that device or your house (or office) is burned down to the ground. You won’t be able to gain access to your […]
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Veeam has a new product/version of their FastSCP tool and I think it’s amazing! First for this demo I’ve created a Windows 2012 R2 server on Azure : Nothing new here, so let’s move on! Download the beta of FastSCP for Azure here. After a quick install (next-next-next) start the program : After starting you […]
A word from my sponsor : Veeam® Backup & Recovery now FULLY supports VMware vSphere 6. Now, you can get Veeam’s largest and most powerful release in history with FULL vSphere 6 support, including support for VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) and Virtual SAN (VSAN) 2.0, Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) policy backup and restore, support […]
Use the following steps to configure Veeam Backup & Recovery to back-up the VM’s (Hyper-V and VMware) to Azure. You can sign up and use free trial licenses for Veeam (check out the banner on the right) and Azure. You only pay for the storage (3 ct for each Gigabyte and the network consumption for […]
A reader of my blog mentioned that it’s wasn’t possible to backup to a a share while using Windows Server 2008 backup. Indeed, using the GUI it’s not possible but you can use wbadmin to start a backup to a netwerkshare : Use the following command : wbadmin start backup –backuptarget:\\fileserver\share –include:C: –vssfull –quiet. […]
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Sometimes you can’t use Hypervisor backup software, for example when using physical machines (huh?) or Xenserver with unavailable storage for creating snapshots. Ofcourse commercial backup software is nice, but sometimes you don’t want to pay for that (whitebox home environment) or the customer doesn’t have the licenses. Why don’t use software you already own? Let’s […]
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