UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect
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Looks like we can manage URB via CLI too.
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It's been a while since I've given URBackup a go. I'll spin up an instance of it in my lab and see how well it works.
I know that it can work a lot like CrashPlan too... Your clients do NOT have to be onsite (or on the same IP subnet) for URBackup to work. IIRC, you specify the IP address / FQDN of the host you want the backups to go to.
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@dustinb3403 I have not used this product, but it sounds like something I need to review.
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Wondering if it could replace our Tivoli endpoint backup.
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@jaredbusch said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dustinb3403 I have not used this product, but it sounds like something I need to review.
I'd really consider it in a lot of situations, let me know how your review goes.
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@coliver said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Wondering if it could replace our Tivoli endpoint backup.
You can use this for endpoint or server backups, it's capable of file and whole image based backups. It has a separate recovery medium to use from CD or USB as well.
It seems to cover the entire range of things that most places would need.
How it performs on huge systems is what I wonder. 100TB of data etc.
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Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
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@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
Did you succeed?
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@dustinb3403 said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
Did you succeed?
It worked great on the web interface but it was for a small non profit organization so it works and I believe it is still working. At the time I didn't think of this limitations:
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@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dustinb3403 said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
Did you succeed?
It worked great on the web interface but it was for a small non profit organization so it works and I believe it is still working. At the time I didn't think of this limitations:
Is UrBackup more geared toward Windows?
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@black3dynamite said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dustinb3403 said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
Did you succeed?
It worked great on the web interface but it was for a small non profit organization so it works and I believe it is still working. At the time I didn't think of this limitations:
Is UrBackup more geared toward Windows?
No, it is all inclusive with Linux and Mac too.
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@black3dynamite said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dustinb3403 said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
Did you succeed?
It worked great on the web interface but it was for a small non profit organization so it works and I believe it is still working. At the time I didn't think of this limitations:
Is UrBackup more geared toward Windows?
Pretty universally available.
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@black3dynamite said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dustinb3403 said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
Did you succeed?
It worked great on the web interface but it was for a small non profit organization so it works and I believe it is still working. At the time I didn't think of this limitations:
Is UrBackup more geared toward Windows?
I think he was referring to the 2TB limitation for VHD files?
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I'm actually testing out the file level backups now. Throwing ~400 GB at it to see what happens.
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@dafyre said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
I'm actually testing out the file level backups now. Throwing ~400 GB at it to see what happens.
Let me know how it performs
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@dafyre said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@black3dynamite said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dustinb3403 said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
Did you succeed?
It worked great on the web interface but it was for a small non profit organization so it works and I believe it is still working. At the time I didn't think of this limitations:
Is UrBackup more geared toward Windows?
I think he was referring to the 2TB limitation for VHD files?
Yeah, that is probably why.
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@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dafyre said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@black3dynamite said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dustinb3403 said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
Did you succeed?
It worked great on the web interface but it was for a small non profit organization so it works and I believe it is still working. At the time I didn't think of this limitations:
Is UrBackup more geared toward Windows?
I think he was referring to the 2TB limitation for VHD files?
Yeah, that is probably why.
It shoud be noted that limitation is only for the Image based backups.
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@dafyre said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@black3dynamite said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dustinb3403 said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
Did you succeed?
It worked great on the web interface but it was for a small non profit organization so it works and I believe it is still working. At the time I didn't think of this limitations:
Is UrBackup more geared toward Windows?
I think he was referring to the 2TB limitation for VHD files?
Why VHD instead of VHDX? Better yet, why not use qcow2 or raw images?
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@black3dynamite said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dafyre said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@black3dynamite said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dustinb3403 said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
Did you succeed?
It worked great on the web interface but it was for a small non profit organization so it works and I believe it is still working. At the time I didn't think of this limitations:
Is UrBackup more geared toward Windows?
I think he was referring to the 2TB limitation for VHD files?
Why VHD instead of VHDX? Better yet, why not use qcow2 or raw images?
All good questions.
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@black3dynamite said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dafyre said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@black3dynamite said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dustinb3403 said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
@dbeato said in UrBackup and FreeNAS Jurassic Park Effect:
Last time I used UrBackup was trying to replace Amanda Backup and Bacula.
Did you succeed?
It worked great on the web interface but it was for a small non profit organization so it works and I believe it is still working. At the time I didn't think of this limitations:
Is UrBackup more geared toward Windows?
I think he was referring to the 2TB limitation for VHD files?
Why VHD instead of VHDX? Better yet, why not use qcow2 or raw images?
Dev here. It can backup to raw image files and there is no 2TB restriction then, but you need to use either ZFS or btrfs as file system for the backup storage (with Linux or FreeBSD/FreeNAS).
You'd want to store the backups on a file system that can compress data anyway, so I recommend using either of those two.
