@jaredbusch said in Is someone using OneDrive for Business 1TB space to backup data/system?:

@openit said in Is someone using OneDrive for Business 1TB space to backup data/system?:

My core idea is to improve more backup options for few of our critical users and systems, by adding ODfB (cloud like) along with local.

Your core idea is wrong because you are using a sync service as a backup, and that is not the intent.

Can you hack things to make it do it? Sure. But it will never be a reliable solution.

I can understand how bad to use sync service as a backup. That's why I am here to put my plans and know possibilities, good and bad things.

Some of users never use OneDrive at all. What if I say, I will backup to OneDrive, where it is not used for syncing purpose, and backup software supports pushing data to OneDrive storage directly (if possible, is it??).....

My core idea is to improve more backup options for few of our critical users and systems, by adding ODfB (cloud like) along with local.

Is ODfB really 1TB for each user?

I'm okay with backing up of only data, but would like to utilize ODfB space, to make secondary backup. Is it going to be like an alternative for cloud backup?

@nerdydad said in Is someone using OneDrive for Business 1TB space to backup data/system?:

You can use Veeam Endpoint, but it does require a license to backup to ODfB. That is more of a premium feature. Otherwise, you're tied to some type of local storage, whether on your network or to your PC.

I was just giving an example of free software like Veeam, if it requires license, I will look for other free or cheaper option.

Hi there,

We have been switched to O365 two years ago, and not utilizing 1TB space on OneDrive.

I would like to know if someone is using OneDrive for Business 1TB to backup the data or whole windows system ? and how you people are doing it?

As of now we don't have backup setup for workstation, but I wish to utilize free resources like Veeam endpoint free and OneDrive 1TB space to backup critical users to make my life easier.

Note: Earlier I have tried to setup desktop software of OneDrive to share files from app instead of going to Web OneDrive, for some reason desktop app not working well.

I would be great, if file version on OneDrive can help in virus infection etc. in case of recovery.

Appreciate your help!

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That's nice information. What software you people are using for this purpose ? are there any free/open source options ?

@jaredbusch said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:

Corning and imaging are two totally different things as the others have said. You need to define what you actually want to do here more clearly.

Okay. I believe I want to know more about Imaging. Actually the curiosity to know about Imaging arise from my previous post, where @scottalanmiller mentioned "Imaging should take around thirty minutes and, in reality, we are often getting that number lower and lower." It was regarding restoring the system when it is not working properly.

Hi all,

I know little about Imaging software.

I think we are talking about Imaging backup which doesn't reside in the system itself like Recovery Partition, through which we can restore the system to Factory default settings.

And I am aware of cloning software like CloneZilla, through which we can restore to that specific time (programs and settings). It doesn't seems practical for me to do it individually.

So we are talking about using at work and network backup/centralized one, preferably with an Agent will do good work ? Is that FOG kind of software referred to be as Imaging Software ?

I always had storage problem to try or start doing imaging to make things easier. Following are few confusions/queries :

1. I believe imaging is the system backup, excluding data (or other partitions), unless we include.

2. Lets say we are trying to take image of Windows machine (system/C partition only), if it's partition size is 100GB and used some 44GB for OS, what size imaging software will occupy after backing up ? 100 GB or 44 GB ?

3. There will be any incremental and schedule kind of imaging backups ? to take back to working stage ? as it's not practical to take the PC back to zero (fresh Windows)...

4. If FOG is an example for software referring to as reimage in this thread (https://mangolassi.it/topic/15746/why-restart-works-technical-reason/22)
   So I need to setup FOG of some linux server, add storage (lets say some NAS) and take image backups on network, how will be the performance ? I am afraid it will kill the network. So user can work while image backup is going on ?

5. Whether single windows image will work for different model machines (HP, Dell, Lenovo etc.), since they have different components and drivers ?

Thanks for response !