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2 Media, but the HDD / Cloud is correct The idea is to not have the backups stored on the same hardware or even same type of hardware. Same hardware is obviou

by syshum 4y ago

2 Media, but the HDD / Cloud is correct The idea is to not have the backups stored on the same hardware or even same type of hardware. Same hardware is obvious but same type of hardware is listed because if a manufacturing defect or a known vulnerability is present it would make all of your backups at risk. So you want to have backups stored on 2 desperate types of storage media. HDD and Tape, or Cloud etc...

nix23 4y ago
for me it was always 2 different formats (db-dump, vm-dump) because i trust (good) storage-media more then backup-software, for example old veeam-backups cannot be restored with new version, old veeam-software runs not on new esxi etc...
- syshum 4y ago
  Veeam backup chains are backwards compatible with older version of veeam so I am not sure where you get that. As far as running veeam on esxi, you would need to elaborate more on that
  - nix23 4y ago
    >Veeam backup chains are backwards compatible I had some backups that where not backwards compatible from versions that worked with ESX but NOT on ESXi. There's your "backwards compatible". >As far as running veeam on esxi, you would need to elaborate more on that Yeah you know exactly what i mean, no need to elaborate on that.
    - syshum 4y ago
      >compatible from versions that worked with ESX but NOT on ESXi wow, ESX, I have not seen anyone talk about that for a long time, you must really hold a grudge... I never used Veeam with ESX so I can not comment on that. >Yeah you know exactly what i mean, no need to elaborate on that. No I really do not, you do not run Veeam on either ESX or ESXI, veeam connect to vmware with API calls, so .....
thisisjasononhn 4y ago
Exactly. If tape was easier for me to implement in my setup, I would do it, but I'd rather just use cloud with a fast fiber connection for now. Offsite I can send data on an external drive to another physical location if needed. I made efforts to buy HDDs from different sellers even, to avoid sequential failures from singular bad batches. That's something else I'd want to add to a "3-2-1", with regards to HDD as a form of backup or storage media.

by syshum 4y ago

nix23 4y ago

for me it was always 2 different formats (db-dump, vm-dump) because i trust (good) storage-media more then backup-software, for example old veeam-backups cannot be restored with new version, old veeam-software runs not on new esxi etc...

syshum 4y ago
Veeam backup chains are backwards compatible with older version of veeam so I am not sure where you get that. As far as running veeam on esxi, you would need to elaborate more on that
- nix23 4y ago
  >Veeam backup chains are backwards compatible I had some backups that where not backwards compatible from versions that worked with ESX but NOT on ESXi. There's your "backwards compatible". >As far as running veeam on esxi, you would need to elaborate more on that Yeah you know exactly what i mean, no need to elaborate on that.
  - syshum 4y ago
    >compatible from versions that worked with ESX but NOT on ESXi wow, ESX, I have not seen anyone talk about that for a long time, you must really hold a grudge... I never used Veeam with ESX so I can not comment on that. >Yeah you know exactly what i mean, no need to elaborate on that. No I really do not, you do not run Veeam on either ESX or ESXI, veeam connect to vmware with API calls, so .....

thisisjasononhn 4y ago

Exactly. If tape was easier for me to implement in my setup, I would do it, but I'd rather just use cloud with a fast fiber connection for now. Offsite I can send data on an external drive to another physical location if needed. I made efforts to buy HDDs from different sellers even, to avoid sequential failures from singular bad batches. That's something else I'd want to add to a "3-2-1", with regards to HDD as a form of backup or storage media.