Suggested moving away from FBackup to the native Windows Backup utility. Turns out that FBackup was taking nearly two weeks to backup our 1TB of data. This is because it was set to compress all files into a ZIP archive stored on a USB 2.0 RAID 5 Lacie drive. Decided finally to just make the jump. Nuke the external, running with no backup now. Turn on Windows Backup. 600GB of unaddressable space on the external.
Turns out, if you want to use a hard drive larger than 2TB as your backup drive, you will need Windows 2008 SP2. This is because of a limitation with the VHD file that is created and hidden from you.
This took me days to figure out, but in the meantime I've got the FTP server up to current patch levels rather than 2009 when the last updates were run (please kill me). Now we have a month's worth of backups, incremental and bare metal restore capability, and volume shadow copy and previous versions giving us fine grained control over file restoration.
I am a golden god.
No comments:
Post a Comment