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    • OksanaO

      Set Up Backups Following the 3-2-1 Rule with StarWind VTL

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    • EddieJenningsE

      Storage for On-site Backups

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      ObsolesceO

      @tim_g said in Storage for On-site Backups:

      Otherwise, unless you can get a direct 1gb or 10gb network connection, backup times will suck.

      Just an FYI, this also may completely depend on your backup software too.

      But if using a software backup appliance such as unitrends on a VM, you'd want to have the storage local to the Unitrends VM for example.

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      I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.

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

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

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

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

      @matteo-nunziati So, CentOS 7 , EXT4, LVM with compression turned on.
      After all, I'm using consumer / smb desktop hardware. From what I've read, ZFS would require more resources than I have available if I wanted dedupe. My storage box will only have 8 GB RAM.

      Generally go XFS but even ext4 is good. ZFS requires something like 1gb per raw tb of storage but mostrly for raid/compression. It raises up to 5gb per tb if you want dedup.
      So 8gb=8tb of raw (pre raid) storage.
      ZFS is nice byt you usually can go w/out its features in smb

      The memory is for dedupe. It needs very little for compression and RAID. Those use CPU, but not RAM (much).

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

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

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

      @matteo-nunziati So, CentOS 7 , EXT4, LVM with compression turned on.
      After all, I'm using consumer / smb desktop hardware. From what I've read, ZFS would require more resources than I have available if I wanted dedupe. My storage box will only have 8 GB RAM.

      Generally go XFS but even ext4 is good. ZFS requires something like 1gb per raw tb of storage but mostrly for raid/compression. It raises up to 5gb per tb if you want dedup.
      So 8gb=8tb of raw (pre raid) storage.
      ZFS is nice byt you usually can go w/out its features in smb

      The memory is for dedupe. It needs very little for compression and RAID. Those use CPU, but not RAM (much).

      No you are right 1gb is for dedup

      I do this a lot 😉

    • wrx7mW

      Synology NAS for Veeam Backup Repository

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      scottalanmillerS

      Veeam DOES recommended avoiding low end NAS devices, and recommends SAN over NAS because Veeam wants block protocols. These parts are true and we don't need to watch videos as they are available in writing from @Rick-Vanover - we even have the author of the best practices here in the community!

      https://www.veeam.com/blog/vmware-backup-repository-configuration-best-practices.html

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      The keys here are "low end" which is an issue around support. The misleading bit is that NAS means server, so low end servers are every bit affected in the same ways. The QNAP, Synology, ReadyNAS and other such devices are not actually NAS but Unified Storage, SAN as much as NAS. That Veeam recommends SAN instead of NAS is a protocol choice, it does not make those devices any less applicable. We should not be calling them NAS, as that is misleading, they are equally both.

      If we really look at the guidance and consider what it could mean, the only real concern is "low end" and low end is always of some concern. Why spend so much on Veeam and Windows licensing and then get cheap on the hardware? You want solid storage hardware and solid support. But nothing here is telling us that there is anything wrong at all with these kinds of devices and certainly the issue is not some kind of corruption caused by the fact that they are in this product category.

    • OksanaO

      Accelerate your backups with StarWind Virtual Tape Library and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager

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      @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 🙂

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