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    • KOMK
      KOM
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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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        riahc3 Banned
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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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        • KOMK
          KOM
          last edited by

          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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            riahc3 Banned
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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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              riahc3 Banned
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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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              • KOMK
                KOM
                last edited by

                I ment edition, not version, sorry

                Various.  TrueImage for Servers, Backup & Recovery for Servers.  Always server editions.

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                  riahc3 Banned
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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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                    riahc3 Banned
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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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                      Mr. Jingles
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                      cygwin + rsync?

                      6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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                        riahc3 Banned
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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. Jingles
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                          @riahc3:

                          @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 ).

                          6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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