@scotth said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

I'm running XenServer 7.2, Xen Orchestra Community (nice script, btw - I used Jarli01) and am fine with it so far. I played around tossing in a few distros and with a little more futzing around, I'm going to move my storage to a Linux distro, at least I'm leaning that way.
My default SR is local and I want to create reliable storage for a backup target. I have a decent box here, two 4T drives and have run Linux on it before.
Any faves, honorable mentions, quirks, hazards?
TIA
Scott

Personally I like md + LVM + XFS. XFS and btrfs are both completely valid avenues as well. Just stay away from the "NAS" distributions like FreeNAS. Better off managing it yourself the vast majority of the time.

@shuey the broadcom chip is enough to me.

@penguinwrangler said in Enterprise backup: Citrix XenServer, RHEV, oVirt, KVM:

@matteo-nunziati Yes, I treat them independently. Which I would love to have the Veeam Appliance which can control them but money is too tight for that.

Let us know when the money isn't so tight ;)

@RestoronixSean

@Dashrender said in How Do You Use USB HD for Veeam on Hyper-V:

@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Use USB HD for Veeam on Hyper-V:

@JaredBusch said in How Do You Use USB HD for Veeam on Hyper-V:

Don"t use USB disks.

If you want a USB disk that can be removed, use a NAS with a USB port that can replicate data in a certain folder to the USB.

Or use a NAS with Starwind VTL so that you get the behaviour of tapes. And the protection of RAID.

I'm going to have to look at that

It's a cool product.

Simplistically speaking, when it doesn't work.
If it works, then it's a backup.
If it does not work, then it's a waste of time and disk space.

Here is the more in-depth explanation of the issue.

@hobbit666 no this is just for the mysql database.

@Tim_G said in Accelerate your backups with StarWind Virtual Tape Library and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager:

Everything on the StarWind VTL side is great. It was quick and easy to install. I installed it on Hyper-V Server 2016, and it went flawlessly. I was able to remotely connect to and manage the VTL without issue across two sites.

The more time consuming parts was setting up SCDPM. But it's Microsoft, so you'll have that.

We'll simplify virtual images delivery (seed & back-seed) with the next update :)

@JaredBusch said in Hardware Design for SAM-DR Small Rackmount Backup Device:

@matteo-nunziati said in Hardware Design for SAM-DR Small Rackmount Backup Device:

@scottalanmiller just a question (sw not hw) why veeam rather than say.. altaro. Just curious!

There is no backup software on this device. It is a storage target. One assumes that @scottalanmiller will be using some base OS that lets you setup basically any type of connectivity.

Ok! Got it wrong! Thanks for clarifying

lol - the ultimate in ransomware protection. watch they don't raise prices, that's a premium feature

@scottalanmiller Replacement as (rather than use vanilla rsync) I'll go with this version.

I've used rsnapshot a good bit and it's a really nice tool for simple backups.

I have used it in the past, and it did work, but it seemed kinda fiddly to get going sometimes. That may have been due to the VLANs we used.

I never had to recover a whole system with it, but I did recover files from the vhd's without any problems at all.

@DustinB3403 said in MariaDB Backup and Move:

@scottalanmiller cool, so if I am already collecting the rest of the database (see previous topic from today using rsync) then backing up the mariadb should grab what is left.

Then all that would be left is to push the backup to an secondary system and test that all works.

In theory. I've had unreliable recoveries from that. I don't know any method to get 100% backup if that code is stored in the database.

Reinstallation fixed it but I don't know why.

@iroal
Great minds think alike !

Thanks for the addition, I'm researching right now and blat.exe seems very worthy looking and simple with good reviews on its Sourceforge page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/blat/

@scottalanmiller said in Share Your Backup Failure Stories to Celebrate Backup Day:

@RojoLoco said in Share Your Backup Failure Stories to Celebrate Backup Day:

Backup Exec....

Say no more, we feel your pain.

Sadly we have that in one area as well. I don't understand why.

I've tried to import the Multi-Tenant Director .ova into XS & convert the .ova into vhd & vhdx.
It will not boot in XS or Hyper-V, I get a black screen.
It boots in vmWare Workstation.

Nakivo support says the .ova is ONLY for use in vmWare (not for XS)

@JaredBusch Understood. Thx for the detail.

We use azure backup in house for our Windows file servers. I am not the head of the Azure backup group but passed this to my coworker and we will be looking into it. Will report back what we find

It's true that you can make stateless systems without DevOps tooling and approaches. But the nature and assumptions of those systems is that you cannot. Just letting arbitrary logins (even of administrators) can undermine that. One of the beauties of the pure DevOps model is the lack of logins. Much like functional programming.

@Dashrender said in When a Backup Becomes an Archive:

@BRRABill said in When a Backup Becomes an Archive:

@Dashrender said in When a Backup Becomes an Archive:

Way to flip it back on them.

Did you drop an imaginary mike afterwards?

Knowing Scott, he did. Just in his own way.

Knowing Scott he probably had a real one in his pocket, which he pulled out, then dropped.

@BRRABill said in Backups - how much does backup performance matter to you?:

@scottalanmiller said in Backups - how much does backup performance matter to you?:

@BRRABill said in Backups - how much does backup performance matter to you?:

All a function of time and need and money.

Only time and money, need in a business is always a function of money.

I mean all of them combine.

You are correct.

Need dictates the other two.

Well, the other two dictate need. Businesses aren't a "need" based thing. They have a goal: profits. Backup restore time is a discussion about time. So the technical piece gives us the time axis and that we are talking about a business gives us a cost one. That's it. The idea of "need" should never really come up in a business, businesses never need to do anything. They desire profits and all actions should reflect that. The concept of needs only serves to confuse people from the singular mission.

Urrrrr.....................:confused:

a major thing on my #ToDoList