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dimitrifrom31 Super Member

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You may have already been facing that problem : hardware or software failure forcing you to make a fresh install losing all your game files, server files, OS settings and whatever else you had on your machine(s).

 

Some genius that had nothing else to do did a mysql injection on my dedicated machine where I was hosting my website, game server files (even if got a copy of them on few other machines) and all my settings (lot of scheduled tasks to automate the hlds updates, Pb updates, zip of the game folders etc

 

"fortunately" I purchased Acronis true echo server and had a backup this computer (automatically uploaded daily on 2 remote machines).

I say fortunately cuz Im currently uploading the backup fiels to proceed to a system restore and got no idea about how and if it gona work.

 

So I was wondering how you ppl were doing to prevent this kind of stuff to make you lose hours of not days of work and tons of datas.

I assume there may be other solutions than mine (will tell you if it works) and I would be interested in comparing them.

 

To "secure" my machines I run a daily antivir analysis with clamwin (free server antivir) and it emails me a daily report (thats how I saw that at 5am a Php shell was on my server) unfortunately woke up too late to do anything agaisnt it.

I make a daily backup of my client exec and TCAdmin databases (mysql dump then using winzip pro to compress and ftp the file on 2 remote servers).

I got 3 copies of my game files.

Altho I dont (yet) backup the game server files since its not "major" issue if they are lost even if very annoying for customers who dont got backup of their configs. but never had problems with game server files yet.

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We backup our servers weekly to an external server in Germany.

 

and how do you make your backups?

 

PS Acronis seems to fail at recovering partition C: so Im using the "files only" restoration seems to be working but may have to reconfigure some windows stuffs like scheduled tasks, OS settings etc.

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Extern HDD =).

 

Well that requires to live close to your datacenters and having 1 in Dallas and 1 in paris makes it hard for me.

 

Not to mention that external HDD = files only. What I was thinking about is a backup of your whole Hard Drive letting you fully restore it (OS, Files, settings etc).

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You can make an image for your partination with Acronis True Image Server than share them in a dedicated box or HDD =)

 

thats what I did but It fails at recovering it and when checking on Acronis support they got tons of different answers to that problem none seems to be working.

 

Im giving it a new try atm

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FYI the latest version of Acronis is CRAP! Roll it back a version and it won't have issues restoring.

 

R1soft is much better though.

 

Ive got v8206 and latest is 8319. Ive read about troubles with some of the latest versions and did not upgrade yet.

 

Well I may try R1Soft if it offers the capability to restore a drive via windows remote control since I want to be able to do it without being physically in the datacenter.

 

but atm I got an Acronis backup file and I need to manage to restore it which turns out to be a real pain.

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Ive got v8206 and latest is 8319. Ive read about troubles with some of the latest versions and did not upgrade yet.

 

Well I may try R1Soft if it offers the capability to restore a drive via windows remote control since I want to be able to do it without being physically in the datacenter.

 

but atm I got an Acronis backup file and I need to manage to restore it which turns out to be a real pain.

 

Are you using TrueImageWorkstationEchoUniversalRestore to restore the file?

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Are you using TrueImageWorkstationEchoUniversalRestore to restore the file?

 

 

No, I use windows remote desktop, start acronis, select "recovery" etc

 

now i got a new failure about boot agent not able to install or something like that.

 

I will recover files and not drive bypassing existing files to see how it goes.

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No, I use windows remote desktop, start acronis, select "recovery" etc

 

now i got a new failure about boot agent not able to install or something like that.

 

I will recover files and not drive bypassing existing files to see how it goes.

 

Use the universal restore with the Acronis image.

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Use the universal restore with the Acronis image.

 

I Second this, last place I worked, had 3 drives in a raid 5 die at one time (random :-/), we lost everything on the drives. We popped in the Aronis Universal Restore CD, and within 20 minutes (I think it was more like 5-10 I had to do this at 3:30am on a Saturday morning after going to the bar so time was eluding me) and the Exchange 2007 box was back up and running like it never happened.

 

We actually used server management called Kaseya, was well worth the money.

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Well i thought acronis would meet my requirements but it failed restoring a partition from a backup.

 

What I need :

 

- Create scheduled backups of a partition ( c:) including the OS (windows server 2003 64 bits)

- Create differential backups so this will not create a 20Gb file at every backup, one time big file, then differential files of a few Mb

- Upload those backup files on a remote machine

- Be able to restore the system this way :

 

1) Reinstall the OS formatting the discs first (I can do that from a remote admin console)

2) Install the backup/restore program on the fresh install

3) upload the backup files on the machine

4) Restore

 

Basically Im doing everything in remote desktop.

 

Acronis is supposed to be able to do all of that but somehow it couldnt and gave me different error messages about bootable agent, write failure etc. I managed to restore "files" only but took me nearly 12 hours to reinstall everything.

The programs you mentionned dont seem to provide those features for what I could read altho I may have missed something.

If you know a program that can do the job please let me know, even if expensive that can be worth the money.

thx

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Well i thought acronis would meet my requirements but it failed restoring a partition from a backup.

 

What I need :

 

- Create scheduled backups of a partition ( c:) including the OS (windows server 2003 64 bits)

- Create differential backups so this will not create a 20Gb file at every backup, one time big file, then differential files of a few Mb

- Upload those backup files on a remote machine

- Be able to restore the system this way :

 

1) Reinstall the OS formatting the discs first (I can do that from a remote admin console)

2) Install the backup/restore program on the fresh install

3) upload the backup files on the machine

4) Restore

 

Basically Im doing everything in remote desktop.

 

Acronis is supposed to be able to do all of that but somehow it couldnt and gave me different error messages about bootable agent, write failure etc. I managed to restore "files" only but took me nearly 12 hours to reinstall everything.

The programs you mentionned dont seem to provide those features for what I could read altho I may have missed something.

If you know a program that can do the job please let me know, even if expensive that can be worth the money.

thx

 

universal restore is made by Acronis! It works in conjunction with the image the True imager makes. ;)

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and you think mirroring across 36 drives wont be? lol

 

Raid 10 with that many drives not only increases your failure rate exponentially, but it will slow the hell out of your array.

 

If you want speed look into Raid 6, but then again this discussion was about backup.

 

So I'll stick with Raid 5, striping and parity.

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