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    KOM
    last edited by Apr 14, 2015, 1:01 PM Apr 14, 2015, 12:53 PM

    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
      last edited by Apr 15, 2015, 3:45 PM Apr 15, 2015, 3:41 PM

      @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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        KOM
        last edited by Apr 15, 2015, 5:35 PM

        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
          last edited by Apr 16, 2015, 11:20 AM

          @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
            last edited by Apr 16, 2015, 11:23 AM

            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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              KOM
              last edited by Apr 16, 2015, 1:04 PM

              I ment edition, not version, sorry

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

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                riahc3 Banned
                last edited by Apr 16, 2015, 1:31 PM

                @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
                  last edited by Apr 17, 2015, 10:32 AM

                  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
                    last edited by Apr 19, 2015, 11:19 AM

                    cygwin + rsync?

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

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                      riahc3 Banned
                      last edited by Apr 19, 2015, 1:45 PM

                      @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
                        last edited by Apr 19, 2015, 2:08 PM

                        @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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