Hyper-V with no shared storage - Backup
Hi all, I have two physical Hyper-V host servers but no shared storage in play, i.e. the VMs VHDK virtual disks reside on an internal volume inside the Hyper-V hosts on which they are running. Best practice for SDR (Simplified disaster recovery) of the Hyper-V host is to have a full backup with ALL resources selected so the green SDR indicator remains illuminated. Question? Will this full SDR backup duplicate data in the backup process because leaving all selections ticked will back up the volume with the VHDKs and then the VMs again through the Hyper-V options? Or I gues the question should be...if I deselct the volume that houses the VMDKs from the Full backup, am I still able to rebuild the host server in one simplified disaster recovery process?Solved1.2KViews0likes6CommentsSimplified Disaster Recovery Disk
Can someone please just shed some light on the Simplified Disaster Recovery Disk? What exactly is it and how large will it be if I create one? Basically I have all my backups stored on an external exagrid (SAN based storage). Do I need this disk if the hardware itself dies and I need to restore my files? What advantage does the disk have over just getting my new hardware up, install the OS and then install BE2014 and restore my files that way? Does the disk allow you to restore the entire system state without having to reinstall the OS on failed hardware first? ThanksSolved2.2KViews0likes9CommentsRunning out of storage space. What would you do?
Hey guys. I just started working at a new company and the backup server is a mess. The 2 B2D drives are pretty much full. The exchange GRT backups are stored to B2D drives that are running out and the rest go to Dedupelication drives (They have plenty of storage space left) My question is, what would you do in this scenario? You can se the second server there but lets avoid that. Would like to hear some opinions. Thanks!Solved1.1KViews0likes4CommentsSDR Wizard fails with Access enied
Details: Server 2008 R2 SE, SP1, Domain Controller, BU Exec 2012 Version 14.0 Rev 1798 When we run the SDR Wizard we get the followimng error mesage We have checked premissions of the Folders, we are logged on as Administrator. Any recommendations to resolve this ?461Views0likes2CommentsWindows 2012R2 with UEFI to Hyper-V
Hello, I have a full backup of a physical Windows 2012R2 Server with Backup Exec 15, and I want to restore it as a VM on a (different) Windows Hyper-V 2012R2 Server. I tried using the SDR disk, but there seems to be a problem with the UEFI configuration, evn though the VM is Gen-2. Is there a way to do this by using the SDR disk? Or, is there another way to perform the restore? Thank you in advance1.8KViews0likes9CommentsEasy: Restoring from a RAID 1 device
Hya folks! Setup: BackupExec 2012 running on SBS 2011. Storage device is a 1GB drive plugged into a Stardom with a secondary disk that we manually swap and take offsite every week (actually, a collection of four such drives that we swap in series). This gives us backups going back four weeks. We want to restore a mailbox from three weeks ago. I've pulled the oldest RAID 1 disk out of rotation, mounted it in a usb enclosure, and shared it over the network. I am, however, not very familiar with how Backup Exec's manages storage devices and I am having trouble creating a Restore job from this network disk. Can someone please walk me through the process to create a Restore job from a network share for an old backup set? Part of the problem may be that the disk has the same identity as the active storage drive. I tried adding the network share in storage via the menu: Storage | Configure Storage | Disk-Based Storage | Disk Storage | ... Error message: "The disk storage device [PrimaryStorageDiskName] was found at the specified path. It is already a device on [ServerName] and cannot be added as a shared device." I'm sure it's a relatively trivial process, and my inexperience is the only major barrier. Much thanks!1.9KViews1like9CommentsHow Many SDR Disks Do I Need?
I want to back up my eight identical Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts and my three Server 2008 R2 with Backup Exec 2014 SP2 virtual machines. I can't use the Hyper-V Agent to back up the media servers because I can't deselect the locally attached Backup to Disk (VHDX) drives (10 TB backups? No thanks, don't have the time or a place to put it!). My plan is to back up five HPV servers individually, and back up the Media Servers (B2D resourced deselected)and their Host servers (Hyper-V storage deselected) with round-robin jobs (1 gets 2, 2 gets 3, 3 gets 1) that run when no other jobs are running. I have read the SDR sections of the BE Admin Guide, the Best Practices document (HOWTO74439) and the step-by-step guide (TECH180099). None of these specifically say whether I need to create a SRD disk for EACH server I want to protect, or if one per hardware/driver configuration is sufficient. I suspect the latter since machine specific data is kept in the SDR folders I have distributed all over the place. If anyone can answer that, I would appreciate your comments!Solved689Views0likes2CommentsWindows 2003- nur eine Freigabe sichtbar
Hallo, ich möchte gerne einen Windows 2003-Server meinen zu sichernden Servern hinzufügen. Leider bekomme ich in der Auswahl der Backup-Quellen immer nur eine Freigabe zu sehen. Laufwerk C: sehe ich zum Beispiel nicht, und somit kann ich auch nicht die relevanten Daten für eine SDR-Sicherung auswählen. Jemand eine Idee? Viele Grüße Cox4aSolved941Views0likes6CommentsBE2014 SDR questions
Hi Guys I have some simple questions regarding SDR in BE2014. I am running my BE2014 with SP1 and hot fix on Windows 2012 R2 server. Everything is functioning perfectly. I just want to make sure that i am following the correct practices regarding SDR of BE2014 itself. I am trying to make sure i can recover my environment in the following scenarios: A server (physical\virtual) in my environment is down, and i want to recover that. My Backup Exec 2014 server itself is down, and i need to recover that. I know that i have following data which put together help me recover the above mentioned scenarios: SDR recovery data path SDR recovery alternate data path SDR recovery disks (ISO file created for servers with SDR enabled) Backup sets BE2014 folders, DATA and CATALOG. What i dont understand is in case of recovery of a server, if i have a ISO image for that server, do i still need the files in the SDR recovery path to recover the server? I have recently setup av backup job where the DATA and CATALOG folder of BE2014 itself is taken backup of to an external storage. I selected the folder themself rather then the same databased under SQL selection, is that the correct way to select theese data for backup? I the selection is correct, is DATA and CATALOG folders enough to recover the BE2014 itself?Solved1.8KViews0likes7Comments