Adv Workstation Central Backup Plans. 1 per workstation or 1 for multiple workstations?

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I've got 6 computers that I really care about. I've purchased Adv Workstation with Dedup & Universal Restore. I'm slowly setting everything up. I have an un-backed-up 2008 Server running the admin server(node) with a local dedup folder and a Synology NAS as the backup location. I'm replacing a WHS that just died on me, so happy with 1 backup a day. Universal restore may be overkill, but the WHS could restore to a bigger HD. WHS also handled dedup (I believe) and was nice to pin backups for a major pre-install.

I think the G-F-S backups are just the ticket to allow me to recover a file from a blunder and/or go back to a point-in-time. And worst-case whole new HD/or computer.

I've set up a single computer so far with a single plan.

My question is, should I set up a single plan and point it to all my computers? or should I set up 6 plans, one for each computer?

My eventual plan is to have the Synology folder copied to a cloud location. However, I'm wrangling a bit regarding the ultimate size of all that, and the de-dup db wouldn't necessarily be included. So I'm guessing I'll need to set up just the Grandfather (full) backups to put a single copy in a secondary location. Which if I understand correctly will be un-de-duped (?), but would ultimately allow me to use the backups.. assuming they made it all to the cloud before the meteor hit... or would a cloud scenario be better served as a separate plan?

mar 07/01/2014 - 00:38
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If all computers are the same and do not need special settings (like different schedule, options, etc) - create a single plan. Even if you need some separate one later - you can always create it, continuing backing up to the same archive as it did when it was the part of the common plan.

You can't configure replication to replicate only selected copies. Secondary location will always contain the same set of backup as primary if it's set up to replicate just created backups to the secondary. And they will be undeduped, yes.
What is wrong in backing up the vault's files from NAS to cloud is that it will be performed without snapshot of any kind, and if Storage Node is performing some operations with it files in backup may be not even crash-consistent. You can stop Storage Node service to avoid it, but then it will reload deduplication database into memory and until it's done, backups to the vault will be quite slow.
But here you will need only one subscriptions instead of six.

mar 07/01/2014 - 08:25
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Thank you for your quick response.

I added 3 more computers to my G-F-S plan that had been working for a couple of days for a single computer. After 6 hours it failed de-duplicating on the 2nd box and the 3rd & 4th couldn't connect to the storage node, which had acronis using 10GB of 12GB total ram. It looks like I have to restart the whole job again vs. trying one of the other computers. So it may be that setting up a plan per computer may be better? as I could retry a single computer of my choice vs the one that may be having issues? I'll try the whole plan again just to see. My storage node is a dual Xeon 2.53GHz with 12GB of ram and 1TB raid-5 array running Windows Server R2 standard. Currently Acronis is the only thing its doing. I may need to set up dedup on node only too, may try that if fails again before splitting plans.

I didn't consider the issue with the vault, and I'm assuming the replicated copy is similar format so while un-de-duped it could be accessed at anytime the Storage node is active.

jeu 09/01/2014 - 21:23
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You can run any plan manually on a single machine if you connect to the machine directly. The centralized plan will be in the list - you can run it but not delete or modify.

ven 10/01/2014 - 05:47