Unitrends Free Capacity
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@Minion-Queen said:
Just got an answer right from @KatieUnitrends 1tb of data as many backups as you want. That is total storage.
1TB of data - That is the total Storage
With as many backups as you want..
This is how I read it,.. but could be incorrect.
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@g.jacobse said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Just got an answer right from @KatieUnitrends 1tb of data as many backups as you want. That is total storage.
1TB of data - That is the total Storage
With as many backups as you want..
This is how I read it,.. but could be incorrect.
But what does "total storage" mean to you? Total storage on which side of the UEB? On the front end (1TB of YOUR data) or on the back end (1TB of backup storage.) Total storage doesn't mean anything unless you are saying you can only have 500GB on one side and create 500GB of backups from it.
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@g.jacobse said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Just got an answer right from @KatieUnitrends 1tb of data as many backups as you want. That is total storage.
1TB of data - That is the total Storage
With as many backups as you want..
This is how I read it,.. but could be incorrect.
But what does "total storage" mean to you? Total storage on which side of the UEB? On the front end (1TB of YOUR data) or on the back end (1TB of backup storage.) Total storage doesn't mean anything unless you are saying you can only have 500GB on one side and create 500GB of backups from it.
From how I read it, this is 1TB of backed-up storage. Meaning you can backup that 500GB twice.
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I think its the total source data
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@g.jacobse said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Just got an answer right from @KatieUnitrends 1tb of data as many backups as you want. That is total storage.
1TB of data - That is the total Storage
With as many backups as you want..
This is how I read it,.. but could be incorrect.
But what does "total storage" mean to you? Total storage on which side of the UEB? On the front end (1TB of YOUR data) or on the back end (1TB of backup storage.) Total storage doesn't mean anything unless you are saying you can only have 500GB on one side and create 500GB of backups from it.
Total storage is the storage connected to the UEB.
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@Minion-Queen said:
I think its the total source data
That would be awesome. Because then it is predictable and that means a lot more. If I have much data changing or I want to keep long term backups, I need a lot more backup storage than source storage.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Total storage is the storage connected to the UEB.
That's unfortunate. Sure you can compress and dedube, but with any amount of delta rate your backups will expand considerably.
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Total storage is the storage connected to the UEB.
That's unfortunate. Sure you can compress and dedube, but with any amount of delta rate your backups will expand considerably.
@art_of_shred would know for sure but, I am pretty sure that's how they do it.
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Ok solid it IS the source Data!
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It can get a little confusing, the way storage limits are referred to. If you have a "licensed" storage amount, that is calling out how much data you can protect. Your actual storage is the landing zone for backups. With a UEB, the attached storage is a landing zone, not pointing to how much data can be protected. With 1 TB, you can get as many fulls, diffs, incs, etc. that will fit in that space. You can also count on some data reduction in your favor (deduplication/compression). On the "licensed" storage amount, I believe the calculation is made for the protected data size based on a 30-day retention with Incremental Forever as the primary strategy.
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@Minion-Queen said:
Ok solid it IS the source Data!
For me personally - I'm teetering on the edge with this amount. Time to see what I can get rid of...
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This isn't getting any more clear.
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@Reid-Cooper said:
This isn't getting any more clear.
Bahaha. I always thought it was like @art_of_shred said but it could have changed.
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@Reid-Cooper I think I need a diagram. I thought I had understood it originally but not anymore.
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As per Ian here at the Unitrends booth it is Source data.
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@Minion-Queen said:
As per Ian here at the Unitrends booth it is Source data.
So you have the following:
server 1 - 200 GB
Server 2 - 400 GB
Server 3 - 500 GBwith the free version you can backup:
1 and 2 because they = 600 GB
or 1 and 3 because they = 700 GB
or 2 and 3 because they = 900 GB,
but not 1, 2 and 3 because they = 1.1 TB.From the sounds of it, your backup storage could be 10 TB if you wanted, allowing you to have many incrementals of the above backups.
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This must be a "licensing" model of control. There are 2 options:
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You can attach a chunk of storage up to 1TB. It's your storage, so backup whatever you want as many times as you want, up to filling that 1TB.
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You are "licensed" for 1TB, so no matter what you attach in terms of storage capacity, you can only protect up to 1TB of source data. So, if you attach 10TB of storage, you can get lots of retention for your 1TB of data protected.
If "source data" is the answer, it has to be option 2.
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Sounds like it must be type 2.
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That sounds pretty positive. Maybe someone can get it installed and see the limit imposed in some manner?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Sounds like it must be type 2.
Yes, it is option 2. Excerpt from the release article:
"Unitrends Free provides hypervisor-level protection for up to 1 terabyte (TB) of data."
