GFI Backup: Home Edition
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…
Category: Backup and Recovery
The Missing Manual Part 2: When Snapshots Go Wrong
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
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
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!
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
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…
VMWare Converter for PC Backup
Standard Disclaimer: I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! I encourage you to use other backup methods in conjunction with this method so that your data is 100% secure. This method is strictly for supplementing…
VMware SMB Designs
My first “real” post! So my job day to day is to design out solutions for customers, one of the biggest things I run into are small business’s who have heard the good word of virtualization or attended a show…