Centralized Vault Off-site procedure
I am using B&R10 (11345) Advanced Server Virtual Edition. I have a dedicated physical server which is the Acronis License Server, Acronis Management Server, and managed centralized vault with deduplication.
What I would like to do is take this server\data off-site for disaster recovery.
What is the correct procedure?
Do I need to get a Windows Agent and backup itself up to an USB drive? I guess that way we could restore it to another server if necessary and have all the backups?
Can I just copy the centralized vault backup folder and database folder?
Anyone?
Afaik after you stop the storage node service, you can copy the content of data(vault) and database folders somewhere, and will be able to re-attach this vault later. You need one more agent license to backup the AMS in your case.
We are using a similar setup, but we use a centralized unmanaged vault (for several reasons) and then use Robocopy to replicate the TIB files to a portable NAS unit per a scheduled task. The advantage here is that the filenames and structure within the vault are human readable, and you don't need to bring up an Acronis server at your DR location. Just point your boot disk to the NAS device, locate the TIB file you require, and you're restoring.
I am hoping future releases will recognize the importance of this type of scenario and include vault management features such as auto vault replication and tiering.
Alan - You are quite right - this is a serious MUST for Acronis; as having easy, manageable offsite setup is becoming a basic requirement even for small companies.
Hello all,
Thank you very much for your feedback!
We take each feedback/request seriously and forward it to our Development team, so that features requested by our customers get implemented in future updates/releases.
I will create a Customer Listening ticket for this and forward it to our Development team.
Please let me know if you have additional questions.
Thank you.
BUMP!!!!
I started thread 10930 on 5/18/10 regarding the vault replication - Is there any status on replicating a managed vault?
Also, it would be nice to have normal .TIB file names in the managed vaults
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10930: Syncing centralized vault - Backup & Recovery Advanced Workstation 10
Sven Selander
Send PM: Is there a better way to replicate the vaults than stopping the services and copying them?
It seems like there needs to be a replication function added to Acronis to accommodate DR sites.
I understand I can use unmanaged Vaults but that defeats the benefits of centralized reporting.
For our True Image Echo Workstation, we use a program to sync the .tib files to our DR location
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Yana
Acronis Moderator
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Send PM: Hello Sven!
Welcome to Acronis Forum! We are glad to greet you here!
Unfortunately currently there is no other workaround for this case, but this is a very important suggestion, so I have already forwarded your comments to the Management and Development team, and hopefully we will have it implemented soon.
Should you need anything else or have any further questions - feel free to contact us at your earliest convenience, we will be happy to help you!
Thank you!
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Yana Savchenko
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Here is what we do:
We are using the Virtual Edition product and have a dedicated, external server just for Acronis Centralization Management. Since the "clean up tasks", "deduplication", and other non-backup process take UNBEARABLY long (SO LONG in fact, almost unusable) that we do a FULL once a week for each virtual server, with INCREMENTALS the rest of the week. These backups get saved to the storage node, which is the storage space located on the dedicated Acronis server. We also have an agent for the Acronis server itself. Why? Because attached to the dedicated Acronis Server is a USB drive, SO - the Acronis server backs itself up (including the virtual backups that are stored on it) and saves that backup to the USB drive. We rotate the 2 USB drives every week, swapping them and taking them off site. Prior to when the Acronis Server backs itself up, I run a cmd file the deletes the back files on the USB drive.
That's how we do it.
Acronis products - we have had to do a restore before and I will say that it was VERY helpful, quick and painless. HOWEVER, the processes that run that are not the backup process itself, dedup, clean up, consolidation, etc - are SOOOO SLOW the product is almost useless. That said, we found a way to make it work for us, but unless Acronis fixes the speed issues with all these process, we are going to go to Symantec's product.