Can you back up XenServer with UEB
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@dafyre said:
@art_of_shred said:
Questions? lol
Yes. What about deuplication? Would a system that handles storage deduplication see "Oh this full OS image, and that agent imaged share a bunch of data! Let's deduplicate!" ?
Or is that dependent on the storage back-end where the backups are actually stored?
Great question - also, is it file based dedup or block based? Or does it depend on the type of backup?
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Deduplication is block-level across the target storage.
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from the Unitrends Administrator Guide...
To increase retention, Unitrends systems utilize adaptive deduplication to remove
duplicate data blocks from backups. With deduplication, backup sizes decrease as
duplicate blocks are removed, thereby increasing the number of backups that can
be stored on the system, also referred to as on‐system retention.
Native deduplication is enabled by default. An outside deduplication device can be
used for Unitrends Enterprise Backup, but physical systems must use native
deduplication. If you use an outside deduplication device, you can disable native
deduplication for backups stored on this device when you add it to the system. -
@dafyre said:
My thinking was more along @scottalanmiller's this time... But like everything "it depends" on what the server does. For a File Server, or an application server (Exchange, et al) that we previously mentioned, to me an agent would make more sense.
However, I thought that restoring to different hardware was actually a function of the restore process, and not necessarily part of the backup process. (I guess it depends on what backup software we are talking about).
Your first, and thus main, backup should always be the entire VM for anything.
If you then need some of the features a backup from inside the OS gives you, then make secondary backups there.
Veeam can be made application aware and issue commands inside the guest to ensure the specified application is in a state for a valid recovery. I would assume that Unitrends has similar functionality, but no idea.
