Unitrends Free Capacity
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@Reid-Cooper I think I need a diagram. I thought I had understood it originally but not anymore.
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As per Ian here at the Unitrends booth it is Source data.
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@Minion-Queen said:
As per Ian here at the Unitrends booth it is Source data.
So you have the following:
server 1 - 200 GB
Server 2 - 400 GB
Server 3 - 500 GBwith the free version you can backup:
1 and 2 because they = 600 GB
or 1 and 3 because they = 700 GB
or 2 and 3 because they = 900 GB,
but not 1, 2 and 3 because they = 1.1 TB.From the sounds of it, your backup storage could be 10 TB if you wanted, allowing you to have many incrementals of the above backups.
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This must be a "licensing" model of control. There are 2 options:
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You can attach a chunk of storage up to 1TB. It's your storage, so backup whatever you want as many times as you want, up to filling that 1TB.
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You are "licensed" for 1TB, so no matter what you attach in terms of storage capacity, you can only protect up to 1TB of source data. So, if you attach 10TB of storage, you can get lots of retention for your 1TB of data protected.
If "source data" is the answer, it has to be option 2.
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Sounds like it must be type 2.
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That sounds pretty positive. Maybe someone can get it installed and see the limit imposed in some manner?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Sounds like it must be type 2.
Yes, it is option 2. Excerpt from the release article:
"Unitrends Free provides hypervisor-level protection for up to 1 terabyte (TB) of data."
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@art_of_shred said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Sounds like it must be type 2.
Yes, it is option 2. Excerpt from the release article:
"Unitrends Free provides hypervisor-level protection for up to 1 terabyte (TB) of data."
Okay awesome, thanks for following up with that. That's great news then. That means long retention periods for a sizable amount of data.
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Wow, very nice. Sorry that I am late to the party. Could not be here for what appears to have been the main event.
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@StrongBad said:
Wow, very nice. Sorry that I am late to the party. Could not be here for what appears to have been the main event.
Whenever you post, I can't help reading it in the "Strong Bad" voice. Just sayin'...
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@art_of_shred said:
@StrongBad said:
Wow, very nice. Sorry that I am late to the party. Could not be here for what appears to have been the main event.
Whenever you post, I can't help reading it in the "Strong Bad" voice. Just sayin'...
Checkin' my emails!
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@Reid-Cooper said:
@art_of_shred said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Sounds like it must be type 2.
Yes, it is option 2. Excerpt from the release article:
"Unitrends Free provides hypervisor-level protection for up to 1 terabyte (TB) of data."
Okay awesome, thanks for following up with that. That's great news then. That means long retention periods for a sizable amount of data.
So, we all made it complicated by not reading the article...
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Reid-Cooper said:
@art_of_shred said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Sounds like it must be type 2.
Yes, it is option 2. Excerpt from the release article:
"Unitrends Free provides hypervisor-level protection for up to 1 terabyte (TB) of data."
Okay awesome, thanks for following up with that. That's great news then. That means long retention periods for a sizable amount of data.
So, we all made it complicated by not reading the article...
What?!? That never happens!
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Very nice. At 1TB of source data, that covers nearly any SMB.
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Sorry for the late response from us on this. The 1TB license includes the data that you're protecting, not the data that you're retaining. This means that if you have a 1TB VM that you only want to protect a few specific files which take up about 500GB, as long as you've setup the exclusions for the initial backup, you will only have used 500GB of the available 1TB of protection. If you forget to setup the exclusions before the initial backup, then your entire license will be used on this single client, and it's probably best to scrap this installation & start over. Please let me know if this answers your questions.
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@KatieUnitrends thanks for the clarification. That's awesome.
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How do you have exclusions without an agent in the OS?
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@Dashrender said:
How do you have exclusions without an agent in the OS?
As far as I can tell in the new Unitrends Free version there is no option for exlcusions. The Old UEB had it in the free versions. There's also no backup type options it's incremental forever only.
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Makes what Katie just posted kinda difficult.
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@Dashrender said:
Makes what Katie just posted kinda difficult.
Yeah, I've noticed that even in the Unitrends Community, which is the forum for the community edition (aka Unitrends Free). Unitrends employes have been giving different answers to the same questions. I'm wonderg if they aren't basing their answers off some internal version rather than the Unitrends free public beta. They also said on the forums that the disk based exclusions currently are not working even if selected in the GUI, I don't even have the option for that. So, I'm guessing it's that the non working features are not in the public beta.
