Hello there,
I am just wondering to know if there is any System Restore Point kind of things available in Linux (lets say CentOS) ?
I find this option to be very useful from my experience while working with Windows systems and curious to know if it's available for Linux to utilize it.
Hi all,
For Offsite Backup I am thinking of Tape Backup option.
We are running Windows Server 2012 File Server with data around 5TB which needs to backed by Tape solution and rotate to offsite.
Tape is one of the option we are thinking of. I am thinking of Full Backup of data for offsite (on Tape) instead of copying Onsite Backup data.
Following are few queries comes to my mind :
We may need to consider increase of data (around 5GB difference according to Incremental Backup daily happening) before getting Tape Backup, maybe we need to consider of 8TB or 10TB to backed up ?
Just wonder what will be the performance difference b/w Tape and External HDD ?
What are all requirements for Tape Backup solution ? a) Tape Library b) Tape Drives c) Backup software, right ?
For backup software, currently we have EaseUS Todo Server Backup software, if it works for Tape, then fine, if not, may be Veeam Endpoint Free (if it works) ?
So which model Tape library will suite us with what size of Tape Drives ? and rough pricing it may cost ?
Thanks !
Howdy !
Myself Mobeen.
I was roaming around this Community from few months and thought to enter the "IT Club" today.
Someone there to Welcome me 
?
Hello All,
After hearing about WannaCry, we have started to check each pc if patch for WannaCry is installed or not, if not install it.
In this process, we have made Windows Updates to Windows Server 2012 R2 and did restart to server in busy hours itself to make sure server is patched properly.
And after making updates, following are the patches are applied, which includes patch for SMB vulnerability :
And at the same day I had setup WSUS on same server to make Updates centrally.
Problem :
After doing this process, the File Server performance went down. Even the Backup took too long for small size of backup from Server.
Today, the same thing with File Server performance (very slow) and backup totally failed (we are pushing backups from Server with EaseUS Todo Backup Server to NAS-Shared Folder) and even not able to access shared folder on NAS from Server, while I can access from other computers to NAS Shared folders.
Note:
We have thread on SW (https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1995507-smb-very-slow-after-running-windows-update?page=2#entry-6903666) for same and I am posting and following up there also to get some solution while protecting server.
I understand the problem is with SMB (may be with specific version, v1?). What I am thinking of is, removing the patch and do some workaround to fix the vulnerability, if the patch is making File Server slow ?
Appreciate your suggestions !!
Hi,
I have just registered to this community and this is second post already.
Is that okay to keeps on asking questions 
? sometimes noob questions too
Here in this topic, my question is what's making ML special/different from other communities or what's the vision with this ?
Well, sorry if you have already included vision or answer I am asking somewhere in "About"/"Guides"/"Guidelines", because I didn't went through
Few thoughts of Other IT pros:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@mobeen Yeah, you'll be busy for a long time!
Got attachment with ML
@travisdh1 said in Tape backup advice ?:
@mobeen said in Tape backup advice ?:
Hi all,
For Offsite Backup I am thinking of Tape Backup option.
We are running Windows Server 2012 File Server with data around 5TB which needs to backed by Tape solution and rotate to offsite.
Tape is one of the option we are thinking of. I am thinking of Full Backup of data for offsite (on Tape) instead of copying Onsite Backup data.
Following are few queries comes to my mind :
- We may need to consider increase of data (around 5GB difference according to Incremental Backup daily happening) before getting Tape Backup, maybe we need to consider of 8TB or 10TB to backed up ?
Sure, but only if you insist on changing a tape once a week instead of twice a week. LTO 7 does 6TB native, and claims 15TB compressed. Planning wise, somewhere between those two extremes will be more realistic depending on how compressible your data is.
- Just wonder what will be the performance difference b/w Tape and External HDD ?
Years ago tape was horribly slow. That's more historic knowledge now than reality. A single, modern, tape drive is much faster than any HDD.
- What are all requirements for Tape Backup solution ? a) Tape Library b) Tape Drives c) Backup software, right ?
Seems to be a good list. I'd add driver, but that should be included with the Tape Drive/Library.
- So which model Tape library will suite us with what size of Tape Drives ? and rough pricing it may cost ?
For a new LTO 7 drive, looks like around $2300. Then $100 per data tape.
We use external USB drives here, but we also don't need to keep to a backup window time. If speed is important, tape can be very appealing today. Then if we assume 10TB external drives, it doesn't take long for costs of drives to be more than the initial investment of a tape drive and tapes.
In your shoes, I'd think a single LTO 7 drive and tapes to match would be the best way to get your offsite data. The costs of external hard drives of a size to match LTO 7 tapes just grows to quickly. Plus, you can use just that single drive without any library needed, keeping things much simpler to manage.
That's nice reply
@StrongBad said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
Hey @mobeen welcome to the community!
Thank you
Thank you all for great responses !!
I am thinking to discuss how Cloud option would fit in our environment. Sorry by mistake I have provided you wrong info that we have Upload speed 10Mbps, while we actually have 20Mbps !!
Maybe creating separate Topic will be good to discuss about Cloud options ?
@travisdh1 said in Tape backup advice ?:
@mobeen said in Tape backup advice ?:
Hi all,
For Offsite Backup I am thinking of Tape Backup option.
We are running Windows Server 2012 File Server with data around 5TB which needs to backed by Tape solution and rotate to offsite.
Tape is one of the option we are thinking of. I am thinking of Full Backup of data for offsite (on Tape) instead of copying Onsite Backup data.
Following are few queries comes to my mind :
- We may need to consider increase of data (around 5GB difference according to Incremental Backup daily happening) before getting Tape Backup, maybe we need to consider of 8TB or 10TB to backed up ?
Sure, but only if you insist on changing a tape once a week instead of twice a week. LTO 7 does 6TB native, and claims 15TB compressed. Planning wise, somewhere between those two extremes will be more realistic depending on how compressible your data is.
- Just wonder what will be the performance difference b/w Tape and External HDD ?
Years ago tape was horribly slow. That's more historic knowledge now than reality. A single, modern, tape drive is much faster than any HDD.
- What are all requirements for Tape Backup solution ? a) Tape Library b) Tape Drives c) Backup software, right ?
Seems to be a good list. I'd add driver, but that should be included with the Tape Drive/Library.
- So which model Tape library will suite us with what size of Tape Drives ? and rough pricing it may cost ?
For a new LTO 7 drive, looks like around $2300. Then $100 per data tape.
We use external USB drives here, but we also don't need to keep to a backup window time. If speed is important, tape can be very appealing today. Then if we assume 10TB external drives, it doesn't take long for costs of drives to be more than the initial investment of a tape drive and tapes.
In your shoes, I'd think a single LTO 7 drive and tapes to match would be the best way to get your offsite data. The costs of external hard drives of a size to match LTO 7 tapes just grows to quickly. Plus, you can use just that single drive without any library needed, keeping things much simpler to manage.
That's nice reply
@scottalanmiller said in Tape backup advice ?:
@mobeen said in Tape backup advice ?:
@RojoLoco said in Tape backup advice ?:
Tape advice: use 3M 996, 2 inch width at 30 IPS. No Dolby noise reduction. Align to 250 nWb/m^2, then drive the shit out of the levels for rock music.
....oh, you meant backup tape. advice = don't do it.
If I don't want to go for cloud option, and needs to take backup to offsite, so do you people recommend External hard drive as a replacement to Tape ?
Isn't offsite tape a form of cloud? Cloud in this context is just another word for offsite.
Repeat : Not sure, how secure the cloud one will be in case of viruses, while in case of moving Tape or External HDD to offsite will give us peace of mind (no connection, no virus).
Let's say if I have resolved the issue of Bandwidth by increasing, how about pricing for Cloud ? and not sure, how much space I should buy ? maybe I need to test it by Free Trial if they have ?
Which cloud option do you suggest ? I think, Amazon Glacier is not suitable, as its for Cold Archive.
@scottalanmiller said in Tape backup advice ?:
@mobeen said in Tape backup advice ?:
@DustinB3403 said in Tape backup advice ?:
Why Tape, it's slow, difficult to transport and requires human interaction.
Push your backups off site to an online storage provider like BackBlaze or Amazon or Azure or anything else.
Tape, while cheap, still requires an upfront investment in hardware, using online storage does not.
If that's the case, how it will be I replace Tape with External Hard Drive ?
About Cloud, I am afraid of Bandwidth, we have 40Mbps down and 10Mbps. By the way, how you prefer to push the data to Cloud ? directly from Server to Cloud with some Agent or from Onsite Backup (QNAP NAS- my case) to Cloud with addons ? if
10mb/s will definitely make cloud storage options hard. Have you looked into increasing that as an option?
Yeah, I may need to check about options and cost we have with our ISP.
How about pushing the data to Cloud ? directly from Server or Onsite backup storage (NAS) ?
Not sure, how secure the cloud one will be in case of viruses, while in case of moving Tape or External HDD to offsite will give us peace of mind (no connection, no virus).
@RojoLoco said in Tape backup advice ?:
Tape advice: use 3M 996, 2 inch width at 30 IPS. No Dolby noise reduction. Align to 250 nWb/m^2, then drive the shit out of the levels for rock music.
....oh, you meant backup tape. advice = don't do it.
If I don't want to go for cloud option, and needs to take backup to offsite, so do you people recommend External hard drive as a replacement to Tape ?
@Tim_G said in Tape backup advice ?:
I didn't see the 3-2-1 rule in there. I'd work on that first. Off-site tape backup only accounts for 1 of the 3 copies of data, and 1 of the 2 types of media, and does cover the off-site part.
But you still need 2 more copies of data on another form of media.
You should always have on-site backup. Just think what would you do if you lost just one file? You'd have to pay hundreds of dollars to get your tape back, or drive to go get it, all just to restore one little file.
Sorry, I didn't mentioned about Onsite Backup, but we do have it. We are using EaseUS Todo backup server on Windows Server 2012 to push Incremental Backup daily to QNAP NAS box which resides Onsite.
@DustinB3403 said in Tape backup advice ?:
Why Tape, it's slow, difficult to transport and requires human interaction.
Push your backups off site to an online storage provider like BackBlaze or Amazon or Azure or anything else.
Tape, while cheap, still requires an upfront investment in hardware, using online storage does not.
If that's the case, how it will be I replace Tape with External Hard Drive ?
About Cloud, I am afraid of Bandwidth, we have 40Mbps down and 10Mbps. By the way, how you prefer to push the data to Cloud ? directly from Server to Cloud with some Agent or from Onsite Backup (QNAP NAS- my case) to Cloud with addons ? if
Hi all,
For Offsite Backup I am thinking of Tape Backup option.
We are running Windows Server 2012 File Server with data around 5TB which needs to backed by Tape solution and rotate to offsite.
Tape is one of the option we are thinking of. I am thinking of Full Backup of data for offsite (on Tape) instead of copying Onsite Backup data.
Following are few queries comes to my mind :
We may need to consider increase of data (around 5GB difference according to Incremental Backup daily happening) before getting Tape Backup, maybe we need to consider of 8TB or 10TB to backed up ?
Just wonder what will be the performance difference b/w Tape and External HDD ?
What are all requirements for Tape Backup solution ? a) Tape Library b) Tape Drives c) Backup software, right ?
For backup software, currently we have EaseUS Todo Server Backup software, if it works for Tape, then fine, if not, may be Veeam Endpoint Free (if it works) ?
So which model Tape library will suite us with what size of Tape Drives ? and rough pricing it may cost ?
Thanks !
@DustinB3403 said in Windows File Server very slow after Windows Server Patch for WannaCry (SMB).:
@mobeen Why is your file server and WSUS server on the same platform?
We were not using WSUS. After realizing about WannaCry we just planned to push the updates from Server to make sure all computers are patched, so setup WSUS on File Server itself.
I was not aware that WSUS will require good enough resources and as you said I was not sure if File Server and WSUS not should be on same server ?
I found issue to be with WSUS in my case. I have installed Windows Updates (SMB patch included) and WSUS on Windows Server 2012 R2 on same day, so I was not clear which one creating an issue, 1. Patch or 2. WSUS. And I was already seeing the SQL stuff Comsuming the maximum resources and Memory usage was some 80% which was not usual, so we uninstalled the WSUS as it's not very important for us, and Memory usage went down to 20%. File Server performance back to normal (good speed).
