Backup and Recovery – Page 12

Veeam Direct Attached Backups with HP P2000 SAS

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Justin Paul | 27 Comments

I’ve talked about the benefits of “Direct Attached” backups in Veeam before, but normally always in conjunction with an iSCSI type SAN’s. Lately, though, we have had a lot of interest in the HP P2000 G3 SAS attached SAN, mostly…

How much bandwidth for offsite VM replication?

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Justin Paul | 6 Comments

One of the hardest parts of planning a virtualization project for a customer is telling them how much bandwidth they are going to need in order to replicate their data from one site to another. Not only is every case…

Introducing a New Sponsor, Veeam!

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

This week Veeam Software signed on as my first sponsor. I’m pretty excited to have them as a sponsor because their software is great! Their Backup and Replication product is responsible for backing up the VM that runs this site…

ESXi backup and restore with vMA

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

The other day I was working on a project where I was migrating HP drives from internal storage, into a P2000 G3 SAS SAN. ( which worked amazingly btw) The catch was that besides being a local datastore they also…

GFI Backup: Home Edition

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

I started using a new product this week at my parents house for backup, and I have to say its pretty cool. I’m talking about GFI Backup: Home Edition. One of my co-workers mentioned it after I said I was…

The Missing Manual Part 2: When Snapshots Go Wrong

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

One thing you are probably going to run into if you have virtualized your servers and are using a snapshot based based backup product are orphaned snapshots. I don’t think that is an official term, but it’s the one I’m…

Veeam Backup and IP Changes

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

Today I brought a backup server back from one of our customer’s so that I could seed some replica’s. In order to do this I needed to change the IP to something on our network so that it could communicate…

Updated: Things That Are Missing/My Wish List

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Over the last couple of weeks I have noticed some things that I think are missing in several of my favorite products. Lets start with VMware vSphere. The feature I’m going to talk about first isnt really “needed” as there…

How Veeam Saved My Blog!

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

Lately I have been tweaking some things to make my blog respond a little faster. I was optimizing MySQL and Apache, but this morning things required a reboot the VM. A little more history…. this blog, as well as some other…

The Missing Manual Part 1: Veeam B & R Direct SAN Backups

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Justin Paul | 41 Comments

One thing that I had problems with the first time I installed Veeam was the ability to backup Virtual Machines directly from the SAN. Meaning that instead of proxying the data through an ESXi host, the data would flow from…