Using a NAS for backups & Unitrends FREE
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UEB free was, to my understanding, moving away from using CIFS and other network-based shares in upcoming version(s). Unitrends really wants you to start using vmware or HyperV to create the datastores and then expose those 'drives' to the UEB. Is that still the case, Art?
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@hobbit666 said in Using a NAS for backups & Unitrends FREE:
Was hoping to do a direct restore to XenServer once installed from the unitrends backups but going to Plan B
export to my PC and import the "image" "ova or what ever" into XenServer Why not make the VM, then use the bootable agent iso (there is one, isn't there?) to boot the VM then restore directly into the VM? This is how agent based restores have always worked.
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@hobbit666 said in Using a NAS for backups & Unitrends FREE:
Was hoping to do a direct restore to XenServer once installed from the unitrends backups but going to Plan B
export to my PC and import the "image" "ova or what ever" into XenServer That's never possible with an agent based backup, because you need an agent to do the restore.
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If you are doing agent based backups, you should make a generic image of your OS that includes the agent. Then you just spin up a VM and restore, everything is built into the image.
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@scottalanmiller said in Using a NAS for backups & Unitrends FREE:
If you are doing agent based backups, you should make a generic image of your OS that includes the agent. Then you just spin up a VM and restore, everything is built into the image.
Good Idea. Having a play this afternoon see what happens
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@Grey said in Using a NAS for backups & Unitrends FREE:
UEB free was, to my understanding, moving away from using CIFS and other network-based shares in upcoming version(s). Unitrends really wants you to start using vmware or HyperV to create the datastores and then expose those 'drives' to the UEB. Is that still the case, Art?
Yeah, that's the general idea.
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@scottalanmiller said in Using a NAS for backups & Unitrends FREE:
@hobbit666 said in Using a NAS for backups & Unitrends FREE:
The version I got doesn't seem to support XenServer?
Not at the hypervisor / platform level. You need to work with agents the same as if it was physical. Doesn't work with ESXi Free, either.
ESXi Free version has no backup API's... that's the issue.
