Hey folks,
I want to start a discussion and got two questions:

Are you guys using the tape media as backup storage?
Are you looking into upcoming LTO7 release?

Thanks!

My backup software is Appassure

are you kidding me

@scottalanmiller too less coffee, I guess.

Remember this is a full backup product, most of the use cases are not doing a BMR but restoring individual files. So the important restore use case you can test trivially anytime that you want.

I’d say its more than that. You can do a full (volume level) backup mode and then perform a Bare Metal Restore. Additionally, you can perform a file level recovery or volume level recovery within the OS.

As a bonus you can perform application item recovery from VEB backups in Veeam Backup and Replication (even in free edition). So frankly speaking, you can backup your physical AD and then restore AD object from endpoint backup thru VBR FREE and that’s for free.

@coliver price, bugs or both?

Guys… Fallout 4 is released – isn’t it the right time to put aside all other games?

@scottalanmiller These Russians Thanks!

@BRRABill Check Veeam Endpoint Backup, please. It’s a free backup tool that has scheduled incremental application aware backups (thru MS VSS) and bare metal recovery functionality (similar/dissimilar hardware).

I am not aware of any other solution out there that can do all of the described at no cost. The only fee I can imagine is to share the feedback regarding this tool with me or any other veeam folks, but its optional XD

Not surprised you can get digital signatures for free nowdays. Probably the best protection is to trust only to MS documented digial ID services – then you are good to go.

@Carnival-Boy For the record, my wife’s laptop (and that’s my "main end user") has some game preinstalled and uninstalling it took me literary an hour – just because of the uninstallation progress. It just happens.

@Dashrender need to check before I call the names

@Carnival-Boy definitely

Found a good screenshot example over here - check all tools with HP prefix

In regards to recovery partitions, the only problem I see – it could keep some OEM licenses (laptops usually do). Also this might be related to warranty, I’ve seen several legal where repartitioning or killing this partition automatically cancels your warranty.

I find annoying anything that was not installed by me (probably except free MS Office on windows machines).

Have a relevant question: how often you kill the vendor’s recovery partitions? I literary hate those because vendors used to create recovery partitions at the end of the existing disk layout making the native shrink/expand impossible. That’s a pain to repartition the 1 TB C volume you know.

My new HP laptop shuts down the WiFi as soon as Bluetooth is enabled. It was resolved by installing the vendor’s drivers (at least before the last update). The point is sometimes you never know what will hit you unless it hits you

Also it reminds me the Veeam B&R tape component that can’t work properly with default Unknown Medium Changer driver for tape libraries. That’s a good example to keep in mind if you have some old hardware in your premises (though, we get this fixed in upcoming v9 major version)

@JaredBusch Sorry, I've missed the point. You can install VEB in unattended mode thru any distribution solution you have on board. Check this article, however, the problem of configuration remains as it has to be performed manually after the installation

…and its VEB – Veeam Endpoint Backup where you got this "Protection" word from

@JaredBusch No, the configuration distribution is not supported. The only supported scripting option is to start the backup process: it works both for incremental rotated backup and/or standalone full backup.

@IT-ADMIN Good discussion and good questions anyway

@scottalanmiller Thanks!

@Dashrender Good community by the way – I wonder why I missed it before…