Backup/sync solutions?

riahc3 · Apr 15, 2015, 3:45 PM

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?

KOM · 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.

riahc3 · 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.

riahc3 · 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...

KOM · Apr 16, 2015, 1:04 PM

I ment edition, not version, sorry

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

riahc3 · 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.

riahc3 · 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…

Mr. Jingles · Apr 19, 2015, 11:19 AM

cygwin + rsync?

riahc3 · 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….

Mr. Jingles · 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 ).