Backup File Server to DAS
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i think that backing up the C drive is sufficient to backup the system image without backing up every thing
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@dafyre said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
but i think it is not optimal, because if i want to restore a 10 MB excel sheet then i have to restore the whole system ??? it make no sense for me
it should be the possibility to have 2 schedule : one for system image and one for data, this is the best way to have a good backup plan, am i right ??No, if you need to restore the Excel file, you can restore just that file.
you mean that during the restore process (in the mode entire computer), i will have the possibility to select which item to restore ??
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@IT-ADMIN said:
i think that backing up the C drive is sufficient to backup the system image without backing up every thing
Why would you not want to back up everything?
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@IT-ADMIN said:
but i think it is not optimal, because if i want to restore a 10 MB excel sheet then i have to restore the whole system ??? it make no sense for me
it should be the possibility to have 2 schedule : one for system image and one for data, this is the best way to have a good backup plan, am i right ??No one said it was optimal, you are the one that asked how to restore the entire system
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@dafyre said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
but i think it is not optimal, because if i want to restore a 10 MB excel sheet then i have to restore the whole system ??? it make no sense for me
it should be the possibility to have 2 schedule : one for system image and one for data, this is the best way to have a good backup plan, am i right ??No, if you need to restore the Excel file, you can restore just that file.
you mean that during the restore process (in the mode entire computer), i will have the possibility to select which item to restore ??
Given that they do a file level backup, must this not be true?
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@IT-ADMIN said:
but i think it is not optimal, because if i want to restore a 10 MB excel sheet then i have to restore the whole system ??? it make no sense for me
it should be the possibility to have 2 schedule : one for system image and one for data, this is the best way to have a good backup plan, am i right ??It allows you to restore individual files from that image level backup.
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@coliver said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
but i think it is not optimal, because if i want to restore a 10 MB excel sheet then i have to restore the whole system ??? it make no sense for me
it should be the possibility to have 2 schedule : one for system image and one for data, this is the best way to have a good backup plan, am i right ??It allows you to restore individual files from that image level backup.
oook that is the answer that i'm looking for, thank you @coliver
in this case having an entire computer schedule backup will be ok and can be restored to : system image or data (it depend on the selection)
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having only one schedule backup of entire computer allows us to restore system image and data in the same time
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@IT-ADMIN said:
having only one schedule backup of entire computer allows us to restore system image and data in the same time
Yes, but to do a FULL or Bare Metal restore, you will need to make the Recovery ISO and burn it to a USB or DVD that will boot your computer and connect you to the storage where your backups are located (IE: If they are on a NAS somewhere).
(Veeam offers to do this for you at the end of the installation or the first time you run it, if I remember right)
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@IT-ADMIN said:
having only one schedule backup of entire computer allows us to restore system image and data in the same time
That is ONE thing that it allows.
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@coliver said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
but i think it is not optimal, because if i want to restore a 10 MB excel sheet then i have to restore the whole system ??? it make no sense for me
it should be the possibility to have 2 schedule : one for system image and one for data, this is the best way to have a good backup plan, am i right ??It allows you to restore individual files from that image level backup.
I said that
It should that right in the screenshot that he provided. -
@dafyre said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
having only one schedule backup of entire computer allows us to restore system image and data in the same time
Yes, but to do a FULL or Bare Metal restore, you will need to make the Recovery ISO and burn it to a USB or DVD that will boot your computer and connect you to the storage where your backups are located (IE: If they are on a NAS somewhere).
(Veeam offers to do this for you at the end of the installation or the first time you run it, if I remember right)
yes you are right, i already created a veeam USB recovery media
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if the system broke and cannot boot, i will plug my bootable USB and point to my restore point in the NAS, and i'm done
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now i'm trying the mode : Entire Computer on my PC (about 70 GB in C and 30 GB in D), when the backup finish i will see if i can restore only one file in the D drive.
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because before i setup a schedule backup only for the C volume, i thought it was enough to backup only C volume to get system image
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by the way i have seen a strange thing when i backup my C volume, the original C volume has 70 GB and the backup has 33.6 GB ? is it compressed or what ??
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@IT-ADMIN said:
by the way i have seen a strange thing when i backup my C volume, the original C volume has 70 GB and the backup has 33.6 GB ? is it compressed or what ??
Yes, Veeam does compression.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
@coliver said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
by the way i have seen a strange thing when i backup my C volume, the original C volume has 70 GB and the backup has 33.6 GB ? is it compressed or what ??
Yes, Veeam does compression.
but compression from 70 to 33.6. wooow
~50% compression? That's pretty good. At one of my last positions we had 66% compression and deduplication. I don't think %50 is out of the ordinary.
