[HECnet] A2RTR downtime

[Thomas DeBellis]

By "Windows Server", do you mean Windows Server Edition or some version 
of Windows set up to have a server role?  In particular, I have a 
Windows 7 Enterprise machine that I have in mind for this.

Production life means a lot; I didn't mess around when I did that.  The 
server was Window 2000 Server running Backup Exec that had ECC memory, 
triple redundant power supplies, multi-UPS, four disk RAID 5 plus two 
hot spares along and a tape loader library.  It also had attached 
terabyte USB storage if the auto-loader when down.  I absolutely was not 
interested in failures.

I ultimately didn't particularly care for Backup Exec, but it was what I 
had to use.
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> On 10/19/21 9:06 AM, David Moylan wrote:
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> I’ll also push a vote for Veeam Community Edition. I run a VMware ESXi 
> box which contains a mix of windows and linux VM’s (primarily linux). 
> I use Veeam to backup all the VM’s to a NAS.
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> As mentioned, you’ll need to run this up on a Windows server.
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> I use Veeam in my production life as well as run a Veeam cloud backup 
> server for my clients offsite copies. I’ve been using this for many 
> years and it’s one of the best VM backup products on the market.
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> For my office backup we put the Veeam backups on a Synology NAS and 
> run NAS to NAS replica between my office to another NAS at a 
> co-workers house.
>
> Cheers, Wiz!!
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> *From:*owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> *On 
> Behalf Of *Brian Hechinger
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 19 October 2021 10:46 PM
> *To:* hecnet at Update.UU.SE
> *Subject:* Re: [HECnet] A2RTR downtime
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> A bit late to this party, but if you're looking for an offsite backup 
> service I've been using Jotta Cloud and so far it's pretty nice. 
> Natively supports linux. Not too expensive either. I'm paying 
> €7.99/month for unlimited storage.
>
> -brian
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>> On 18/10/21 16:53, Zane Healy wrote:
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>> Take a look at Veeam, specifically the “Community Edition”.  You 
>> should also be able to take a look at the "Veeam Agent for Linux”, as 
>> you can simply run it on your Linux box, and point it at an NFS share 
>> or USB disk.  The community edition of Veeam Backup and Recovery 
>> allows you to backup 10 Physical or Virtual systems for free.  It’s 
>> only downside is that it needs to run on Windows.
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>> I do nightly Veeam backups of all the VMware VM’s that run my virtual 
>> DEC systems.  This has saved me in at least one case.
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>> Bare metal Veeam restores are an option, since you asked about “Bare 
>> Metal”, but that’s something I’ve not tested.
>>
>> Zane
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>>> On Oct 17, 2021, at 12:53 PM, Thomas DeBellis 
>>> <tommytimesharing at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> *Fourth*(and final) concerns RAID in an indirect way.  My Tops-20 
>>> systems are backed up on a quarterly basis and those backups 
>>> compressed and moved to alternate storage.  However, I have never 
>>> backed up any of the Ubuntu systems and, although I am running SSD 
>>> media, some of this is quite old and I'm starting to feel 
>>> uncomfortable out it.
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>>> Were you aware of any winning backup solutions?  I can restore 
>>> Tops-20 to bare metal, but I really don't remember how to do this 
>>> for Unix (although I did know it for Ultrix at one point).  So I 
>>> starting looking.  Déjà Dup looks like it won't quite do what I 
>>> need, but since it uses duplicity, I started looking at that.
>>>
>>> Remember, even a RAID is no substitute for backup.  This was 
>>> probably more true in the days where a hardware RAID controller 
>>> error introduced a single point of failure; it may still be true for 
>>> a software RAID.
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