Backup/sync solutions?
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In Task Scheduler on the General tab select "Run whether user is logged on or not"
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I have had some good success with "Backup PC"
Thanks for the suggestion. I had tried it before maybe a couple of years ago but it was not suitable at that time. I will look at it again.
They are good for imaging but like I said not being able to authenticate with my credentials is kind of a huge bitch.
I've been using Acronis in an AD environment since v9 and I've never had a problem authenticating, and I backup multiple domains. One set of creds for the backup job and another set for the target location. Works like a charm.
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@KOM:
I've been using Acronis in an AD environment since v9 and I've never had a problem authenticating, and I backup multiple domains. One set of creds for the backup job and another set for the target location. Works like a charm.
My issues were just looking at the source, much less the destination…
What Acronis edition were you using exactly?
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I've been using Acronis in an AD environment since v9
9.0, 9.5, 10.0, 11.0, 11.5. No problem with its AD integration.
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@KOM:
I've been using Acronis in an AD environment since v9
9.0, 9.5, 10.0, 11.0, 11.5. No problem with its AD integration.
I ment edition, not version, sorry.
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I think, even though it is a overkill, for offsite and onsite backup in a task weekly:
Source = s:
Destination= d:robocopy s: d: /E /MT:2 /R:50 /W:10 /V /ETA /LOG:robocopy.txt
E = I include every subdirectory including empting ones
MT = Im kind of confused on this one. It creates multi-threaded copies BUT I only have 2 cores on the VM and HT turned off. Would 2 do anything?
R = Number of retry times. Shouldnt do it ever as the office is empty and it isnt in use
W= Wait times. I dont want it to wait forever so every 10 seconds is enough. Basically max 8 minutes per file.
V = Gives output
ETA = How long it is going to take
LOG = Make a log file. Is it possible to do something like robocopy%date%%time%.txt?I think this will be enough for my local copy and my onsite NAS.
This isnt a true "sync" for my offsite NAS thru VPN but if I dont find anything else….Ill do it this way too...
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I ment edition, not version, sorry
Various. TrueImage for Servers, Backup & Recovery for Servers. Always server editions.
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@KOM:
I ment edition, not version, sorry
Various. TrueImage for Servers, Backup & Recovery for Servers. Always server editions.
Thank you. Will keep in mind.
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Task Scheduler and Robocopy were a lot trickier to set up than a simple BAT file. Got it to work but…
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cygwin + rsync?
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@Mr.:
cygwin + rsync?
Was one of the solutions I was looking at. A rsync client looks pretty OK to setup in Windows but a server? I gotta look more into that.
Besides robocopy is take a ETERNITY to complete 2.22TB started on Friday at 10PM is still running Sunday at 4PM….
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@Mr.:
cygwin + rsync?
Was one of the solutions I was looking at. A rsync client looks pretty OK to setup in Windows but a server? I gotta look more into that.
Besides robocopy is take a ETERNITY to complete 2.22TB started on Friday at 10PM is still running Sunday at 4PM….
Robocopy is MS's interpretation of 'automation' ( ;D ;D ;D ) (why copy what hasn't changed?).
From your 3 targets, why do you need to install an rsync server? If you have a common NAS (Syno, Qnap, FreeNAS), rsync server is built in, and for the USB-disk you don't need a server. You can simple rsync source target, e.g::
rsync: c:\docs e:\docs (plus the switches of course, which I don't know by head ;D ).
