Re: Backup to a NAS
- From: "kj [SBS MVP]" <KevinJ.SBS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:22:49 -0700
kj [SBS MVP] wrote:
Les Connor [SBS MVP] wrote:
One further consideration; if you have a successful SBS Backup
(configured with the wizard), you have everything you need to recover
the SBS, from bare metal if need be. And, you have a proven,
documented procedure that's fully supported by MS, should you have
any problems.
Beware of backup applications and methods that make the promise, but
don't deliver at crunch time - they are unfortunately common and by
the time you find out you have one of these it's too late. Note also
that an image, while extremely useful, is not a substitute for
backup. If you're less than an expert, and/or don't regularaly test
restores,
then SBS Backup is the safe,sure bet. It's not a simpleton solution,
it's designed to do a thing, it does it, and it does it well :-).
No truer than that Les. Supported, not supported... unless its being
regularly tested it might be worthless.
One note on the NAS, the share must be accessable without additional
authentication. Regular domain member server shares (properly
configured and permissioned) do not have this problem. OPs NAS device
might.
"You can save backup files to a network share when you use the Backup or
Restore Wizard to back up your server in Small Business Server 2003"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886623
"kj [SBS MVP]" <KevinJ.SBS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Cliff wrote:
On Apr 24, 4:14 pm, Rick <R...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-- Greetings,
I purchased a Snap Server 210 NAS as a means to backup my network
on a new Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 installation.
However, I am unsuccessful at configuring the backup using the
wizard. Specifically, SBS will not allow me to backup to my SHARE
folder or a mapped drive.
Can anyone provide detailed instructions on how to configure this?
Thank you,
Richard
The SBS backup wizard is really just a wrapper that creates
scheduled tasks for NTBackup. And it doesn't support disk-based
backups as I recall, just because that wasn't popular when SBS2003
was still being planned. SBS 2008 is supposed to be much better,
but alas, we aren't there yet.
What I recommend to my clients is BackupAssist
(www.backupassist.com.) It is basically a pretty GUI that wraps
around NTBackup (just like the SBS backup wizard) and passes it the
appropriate flags to get the job done. NTBackup is actually an
amazingly powerful backup program, and backupassist, like SBS's
wizard, just pretties it up for the dance. So for the price, you
get some rock solid features, a product that still reports properly
in SBS reporting (because it's still NTBackup at the core), and
adds the features 'missing' from SBS 2003's own wizard. Hope that
helps.
Sure it does. Both local drives and network shares are supported and
work just fine even with the wizard. Been doing it for years.
Network Drives are rather poor performers though, even over gigabit
connections.
-Cliff
-Cliff
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/kj
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/kj
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