UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options
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I'm in the middle, I like both agent and agentless approaches. I like how agent based is more flexible and agnostic. You can push to cloud and keep the agent, too.
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I find myself in between the two options as well. I really do see the upside to Veeam, but if the solution doesn't work with the infrastructure I couldn't justify changing the entire thing just for a backup solution.
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@dafyre said in UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options:
I'm in the "Use an Agent" camp... Especially if you can push configuration settings, etc, via the server. (As is the case with UR Backup, IIRC).
As part of the push command to the agent, point it to the server... and let the server manage everything.
Me too. Puppet sets the ReaR configs on the nodes pointed to an NFS share. If I want to change anything, puppet does it for me on however many systems I want.
So as soon as the machine is finished kick-starting and restarts, it pulls in the puppet catalog and backups are configured.
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Agents just feel so... reliable. I guess it is the admin in me, I want to see the backup running, not just trust that it is working from somewhere else.
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There is something really nice, though, about not needing an agent. Just talk to the hypervisor, get everything that you need, and know that everything on it is backed up.
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Starting with Hyper-V Server 2016, Change Block Tracking is available. Well they are calling it Resilient Change Tracking (RCT).
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@black3dynamite said in UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options:
Starting with Hyper-V Server 2016, Change Block Tracking is available.
Yeah, that's the biggest feature of the update. It's huge. But sucks for Veeam who did so much work building CBT for Hyper-V and now they will not be unique any longer.
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Altaro VM Backup also had to create their own CBT for Hyper-V too.
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@black3dynamite said in UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options:
Altaro VM Backup also had to create their own CBT for Hyper-V too.
I can't believe that no one has done this for XenServer or KVM yet. Seems like it would be a huge win to have it.
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@scottalanmiller said in UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options:
@black3dynamite said in UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options:
Altaro VM Backup also had to create their own CBT for Hyper-V too.
I can't believe that no one has done this for XenServer or KVM yet. Seems like it would be a huge win to have it.
Don't you remember the first rule of XS Club?
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@BRRABill said in UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options:
@scottalanmiller said in UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options:
@black3dynamite said in UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options:
Altaro VM Backup also had to create their own CBT for Hyper-V too.
I can't believe that no one has done this for XenServer or KVM yet. Seems like it would be a huge win to have it.
Don't you remember the first rule of XS Club?
I can't say.
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@scottalanmiller said in UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options:
@BRRABill said in UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options:
@scottalanmiller said in UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options:
@black3dynamite said in UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options:
Altaro VM Backup also had to create their own CBT for Hyper-V too.
I can't believe that no one has done this for XenServer or KVM yet. Seems like it would be a huge win to have it.
Don't you remember the first rule of XS Club?
I can't say.
No that's the first rule of Fight Club.
The first rule of XS Club is .... AS-IS!
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Something I just noticed reading the UrBackup Website is that the CBT feature is $17 per Client excluding VAT.
That's really cheap.
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Oh this is another cool feature that was added recently.
