We are considering hosting our own cloud backup location for a handful of servers that are hosted by commercial companies.

Looking at 150 GB of data backup per month and a monthly OS disk image of three or four servers approximately 200 GB total.  Most of it is archival and the image files would be rotated possibly maintaining 2 images per remote server at a time.  Currently using AWS with SyncBack.  Unfortunately started with Jungle Disk because at the time SyncBack did not interface directly with AWS.  This has led to enormous expense in retrieving things from Glacier and dealing with Jungle Disks changing file names/data to proprietary scheme so you can't see actual file names in Glacier.  And JD does not have Glacier retrieval function.  The server hosting companies charge almost as much for regular image backups as for the monthly server fee and I have heard that their backups are not totally reliable.

In spite of that very costly situation and the recent cost time and money required for us to retrieve a 5 TB archive, AWS charges too much and they have a ridiculous amount of tiers of charges and fees that it is nearly impossible to know what charges are coming on a monthly basis.

Looked at Azure and it looks slick but it isn't free or inexpensive even with our moderate amount of usage.  So we are considering hosting our own cloud backup.

We have extra servers so no hardware expense except a few large drives.  We would figure out some secure VPN / FTP into the…

I was working on organising some 112 zip folders containing some training files that I purchased recently. These were located on an external 3 TB Seagate hard drive (separately powered).

When I was almost done, I suddenly noticed that all except one of the folders had simply disappeared.

I have been desperately trying to find those files, thinking that perhaps I may have accidentally moved them to another folder, but no, those files no longer exist on that drive.

Currently I am in the process of running chkdsk /h /f /r /x on that drive and hoping something would come up. Besides a friend suggested it could be that the allocation tables are corrupt so I might have to resort to expensive data recovery tools or services.

Any help would be welcome from this forum please. Those files together cost me about $800!!

I google drive backup a safe backup solution?

Having a nightmare with a server which has a failing hard sisk and is dragging the server down completely to a halt. The worst thing is we added 3 drives to the array and started the expansion just before the drive started alerting. This expansion is going to take weeks, is it possible to remove th failing drive (its not failed yet or I would just tak e it out) mid expansion?

Hi Experts,
this is in reference to the following.
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29151324/Urgent-Cannot-insert-new-records-in-SQL-table.html?anchor=a42899504¬ificationFollowed=232866306#a42899504
The problem is occurring again.
Please help!!!

P.S. The problem does not seem to be Access related as its happening in SSMS as well.
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what is the best and simplest to use program out there in order to do
a system image and a recovery disk?
thanks,
capreol

Hi All,

We are currently running a VMware environment with SAN as storage. We have two sites, production and disaster recovery. We are currently reviewing our backup site. At the backup site we have another VCenter, physical hosts with enough resources to run production and an equivalent SAN with double the production capacity. Volume replication occurs between the production SAN to DR SAN. We use VEEAM for backups.

We want to be able to use the DR site in the event the production site is unavailable due to disaster as quickly/easily as possible for all network services. Is it better to use VM site recovery or veeam replication. Should we continue to replicate the Volumes from the production SAN to the DR SAN? We also want to be able to recover single server very quickly, ie if our storage server got hit with ransomware we could simply roll it back to a known uninfected time.

Thoughts, suggestions and input very welcome.

Cheers,
Paul

Hi

I have a windows 7 laptop and the laptop was in the domain. I accidentally deleted the computer account in the AD and later on realised i had deleted .
it and tried to rejoin the domain going to workgroup and joined the laptop to work group.

I noticed that my predecessor had created a restricted user account to log into the laptop,  and i can see the local admin account is disabled and  i went to MMC and added local users and groups and when i enable the local admin account, it says access denied.

There are important document on the local hard drive and the laptop hardrive was encrypted with veracrypt.
Now i need to recover these documents which is on another user profile , which is saved on the desktop.

Please let me know how to get access the documents or is there any way to enable the local admin account? so that i can switch user and log in as local admin.

Attempting to unlock a GPT protected disk while preserving the data. I'm using EaseUS Partition software and the drive is a healthy WD 4T SATA drive. The scans been running over 5 hours and is just over 50%.

Is there a faster way to access the data?

I have two synology NAS one onsite and one offsite, synology offer two application for site to site replicate synology snapshot and hyper backup. Can one please advice which should be the recommended one to use.