Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2010 Corporate Line has been released. I don’t have to present Paragon Software to my readers any more, because few week back I held a contest for winning Paragon’s Virtualization Manager Personal edition on my website. Personal edition is different from corporate edition of Virtualization Manager 2010, because it’s destined for […]
Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange video
My test of Acronis Backup and Recovery for MS Exchange Last week I’ve done a little vieo about Acronis Home 2010. There is a Exchange version of Acronis too, it’s called Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange. I wanted to give it a try so I downloaded a trial version of Acronis Recovery for MS Exchange […]
Backup and DR with Acronis True Image Home 2010
Easy setup of Acronis 2010 home. Acronis is one of my preferred products when it comes to backup and disaster recovery for physical PCs or Servers. I tested recently the new Acronis 2010 home edition called Acronis True Image Home 2010. You can get free trial if you follow this link to test this nice […]
End of VCB – VMware Consolidated Backup
In the upcoming release of vSphere there will be no more VCB. As some bloggers already announced, VCB backup will be phased out and replaced by VDR. At the moment when you download vSphere, you still have a choice between VCB and VDR. So in vSphere 4.1 (if this is the future release number… 8-)), […]
Do you want to see a little magic?
VDR – VMware Data Recovery – Verbose Logs where to find that? I was just reading the VDR Admin guide once more. In details and I found some information that I have overlooked the last time I was reading the pdf guide. Usually when you want to see VDR logs you go and connect to […]
VDR backup fail error
VMware Data Recovery error – Trouble writing files, error -1020 (Sharing violation) Sometimes you came out in a trouble when your VDR backup does report an error. Trouble writing files, error -1020 (Sharing violation) And when you manually trigger the backup it fails with the following error: The destination is not available for a backup […]
Error when VM disks have incorrect changed block tracking configuration
How-to correct the incorrect changed block tracking configuration error. Apparently, there can be a case when you are running your backups using CBT (changed block tracking) feature of vSphere 4, you might gen an error saying that: Disk “Hard disk 1” has incorrect changed block tracking configuration. It means that one or more VM disks […]
Arkeia Backup Appliance setup
I wanted to try to setup another backup solution using CBT (changed block tracking) I talked recently. It’s Arkeia Backup. With the solution I’ll be showing you, you’ll have a possibility to backup for free up to 250 Gb of data. Update: It’s not been tested by me (for now) that this solution works with […]
Performance best practices for SRM 4
New pdf from VMware available for SRM 4 for performance and best practices. You can find the whitepaper at the VMware Website on the product page for SRM 4. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.0 is one of the products beeing used to protect against a disaster of entire datacenter. The product can recover in […]
Arkeia Free for ESXi – to backup your ESXi 4
Free version of Arkeia Software can backup your ESXi 4 Free version up to 250Gigs. Arkeia Network Backup v 8.1 is a linux Appliance in OVF format which you can download. There is a Free version – see Wiki info and paid version. You must register for the license. There are some limitations to the […]