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What? No. You can do incremental and periodic full backups and delete old versions with free on a daily backup job.
This is common for free vs paid limited options. Basic vs advanced/power user.
By "job," I mean you can only select complete drive or volume, or specific files. You can't set Agent up alone to run both a complete drive backup and a file-level backup of specific folders. It's one or the other.
I agree with you...except that as @aj_potc has pointed out, configuring Agent through the free version of B&R suddenly allows you to configure Agent to run multiple jobs.
Because it's incremental AND you can do file level restore from image backup, there's less point for two image and file backup jobs for simple use cases.
@jbiloh just had a case of comment posting greyed out. Refreshed page and latest content I wrote wasn't displayed but did allow it to post.
I have been using a External WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive, for a long time, it work great, it come with Encryption software., it just plug to my PC and it automatically backup my files.
I know you can do file level restore. But, image backup requires much more space and there are multiple backup storage locations. So, it would be nice if I could store multiple versions of the more important folders locally on a NAS and keep multiple versions of the 10-20x larger backup that contains less important data to a storage VPS (keeping a copy of just the one most recent version locally on a NAS). If I ended up wanting to do an image level restore, I'd have that option, but I would have more copies going back further of the important files - i.e. in case something was corrupted.
What to do if my critical data is my 8TB movie collection?
And what if I make the earth explode ? Do you have backups on the moon ?
@Daniel15
Network backups are only used as a last resort, and I'm backing up at two different providers, in different locations, so hopefully I won't be able to use them.
@RedSox
We all have different definitions of what is critical, I basically keep pictures of my kids, the code I write, etc.
Upload to Deep Atlantic Storage, unlimited storage for free.
Looks good. I uploaded 1TB with no problem. Thank you.
My point was if you need the features you want, Veeam thinks you should pay. They can't give away the store for free. Adding features to server versions makes sense to get actual business people with servers and budgets to evaluate and get hooked on their software and spend the money.
I solved this by open sourcing a lot of my code, so multiple people have a copy of the repo
My point was that they do give the features for free, if you also install B&R. Moreover, as far as I can tell, they don't even offer the option of buying a standalone version of Agent that supports multiple jobs.
https://www.veeam.com/windows-cloud-server-backup-agent.html
Looks like server version does, workstation only allows unlimited jobs for Veeam Connect Cloud repo. (?)
Their bread and butter is enterprises, not the personal users.
That's correct. The standalone agents are not something you buy separately.
I demand a floof proof my good sir.
Here you go https://i.imgur.com/K6kbUFl.jpg
is P2P backup software (i backup to your HD, you backup to my hd)
still around?
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he was talking about "anitya" concept & it's just a matter of time as many don't know any trying to even find a way to backup stuff to human DNA lol
@Daniel15 already did a good job, but as the issue Raid vs. backup seems to be not clear to some:
Raid addresses the problem of disks failing, i.e. the medium onto which one puts data.
Backup addresses the problem of data failing/corrupted/lost/etc for a variety of reasons.
Finally multiple backups addresses the problem of a backup not being available for a variety of reasons (e.g. house burnt down). Kind of closely related multiple backups on multiple types of media and/or at different locations addresses diverse disaster scenarios, e.g. (electro)magnetics based record being destroyed by e.g. EMP but optical based records not.
Much of this has already been said but here is what I learned.
Depending on how import your data is and what are the consequences of losing it you can implement as much or as little of this as you want.
I store my backups to
1. aws (us-east)
2. backblaze (us-west)
3. ovh (sg)
4. buyvm (ny,lv,lux)
5. letbox (ny,la)
6. - still waiting for Elon to launch spacestorageX
Does it matter whether the drive is active or offline?
I have two HDD, one is connected to the home router and powered on all the time, the other is normally disconnected and only plugged in occasionally to take a backup.
Does the offline drive last more years than the active drive?
Another often-overlooked thing that RAID addresses is corruption.
Backups require manual effort discover and restore files affected by corruption (due to bitrot/URE/etc), and you're screwed if the last good copy of the file falls out of retention
With any good RAID implementation, this is all handled transparently and automatically
Probably will last longer in practice, but still look at the recommended replacement date from the manufacture. I had offline drives fail on me around the 10 year mark.
Yes and no. Raid doesn't per se, but yes, sometimes Raid does use erasure coding. Note though that checksums usually can detect but not repair data corruption.
As for corrupted data/files one simple strategy that I found to serve me well for many years is Big-Medium-[Small] cycles like e.g. a Full Backup every X days plus incremental backups every Y hours plus possibly near real time backup logs of volatile data like e.g. new or updated DB records, and an accumulation+deletion mechanism which brings S into M and deletes S after a given number of cycles.
I mean the mechanism of any RAID where it responds to URE's by reading from another disk and using that to re-write the corrupt data
Without RAID, when you hit a URE and if you notice it, you are left with a filesystem-specific manual faff to identify the file affected and restore it from backup