Storagecraft Backup

[Nikita Desjardins]

WithShadowProtect, meet or beat your recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTOs and RPOs). Recover files and folders in minutes. Restore failed servers. Use patented VirtualBoot technology to instantly boot a backup image into a virtual machine.

The issue with asking for a script or tool that someone may have created is it will likely work for just them. What you might do is setup a custom script that sees your target, and moves everything out of that target to a remote, and then deletes the files in the remote.

You need to get away from the thinking of Weekend Full - Daily Incremental. Shadowprotect works in a different way. Its taking rapid snapshots and making a chain, Image Manager looks after the integrity of the chain and retention.

Looking at a few of these forum posts it seems like similar misunderstanding of the continuous incremental chain. You cant expect SP to go back in time, it will only change the retention looking forward.

Set the retention policy in the shadow protect agent itself for the amount you want. There are 2 different ways to manage it, and as several people have already stated, it will only use that policy for future backups.

When I have to change it due to space restrictions, I will wait until I have a clean break after my weekly full then delete the entire chain in one shot.

I know it is only for future backups that is why I delete or format the entire disk first. Then set the retention policy in advanced. Also I thick the checkbox " force apply retention policy on next backup" or something similar called.

Fast and flexible recovery starts with a solid backup. SPX quickly and efficiently captures sector-level, image-based backups of your entire system, including the operating system (OS), applications, settings, services, and your data.

The award-winning StorageCraft ShadowProtect SPX provides backup and disaster recovery, data protection, and managed system migration for Windows and Linux systems on virtual and physical machines. If you're working in a mixed environment, you'll likely appreciate being able to run one backup and recovery software solution on all machines.

Fast, flexible recovery starts with a solid backup. StorageCraft ShadowProtect SPX is the cornerstone of the StorageCraft Recovery Solution, providing comprehensive backup protection, reliable recovery, and system migration in a single, cross-platform solution that supports Windows and Linux systems on virtual and physical machines. How it works:

A VM license is appropriately less expensive than a physical server license. Please note that a virtual license allows you to migrate or restore a VM to a physical environment. However, once restored to a physical system, the virtual license ends. Use a new physical license to continue to make backups in a physical environment.

After 30 days, the license expires and the backup functions cease to operate. Images created during the trial period are fully restorable if you have a registered (perpetual) license version of the software. You can download and use the StorageCraft Recovery Environment CrossPlatform to restore system volumes.

NOTE: Socket licensing requires the installation of the StorageCraft Socket Licensing Service on a designated VM (Windows or Linux) in a given host environment. That VM requires Internet access.

The 64-bit Recovery Environment CrossPlatform (RE-X) supports restorations of both Windows and Linux boot volumes. Use the REBuilder app to create the 64-bit Windows Recovery Environment if the restore requires additional driver support. (StorageCraft recommends using the 32-bit Recovery Environment only when required by the destination hardware.)

You need to deactivate the ShadowProtect SPX license and uninstall the software prior to upgrading an existing Windows system to a newer version. For example, do an uninstall of SPX when upgrading a Windows 7 system to Windows 8 or a Windows 8 to Windows 8 Pro or to Windows 10. After the OS upgrade, reinstall ShadowProtect and reactivate the license. While the system preserves backup job configurations and other ShadowProtect settings and could continue an existing back chain, a best practice is to always create a new backup job after the upgrade rather than continue the older, existing chain.

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ShadowXafe: Next-generation data protection software.

ShadowXafe provides unparalleled data recovery and is work-flow optimized for management simplicity. The combination of deployment ease, recovery speed, SLA orchestration and management simplicity make ShadowXafe a game changer for your managed offering and your service desk profitability.

Forward-thinking MSPs know the impact standardization brings to the profitability of their service desk. StorageCraft is proud to be the first vendor to truly empower standardization in the data protection category.

When provisioning a new account, you'll create your tenant and gain access to the Storagecraft portal. Utilize this portal or the ConnectWise Automate plug in, to add machines and backup jobs as needed, and get billed for your monthly storage use or licenses. No need to enter a quantity for each product, or come back to our marketplace to make changes.

Storagecraft OneXafe Solo is a Plug and Play Appliance that is sold as a subscription for MSRP of $99.00 per month. For the $99/month, you receive the appliance and backup service for one computer. A one year commitment is required. A flexible service that allows for additional computers to be backed up for $79 per month. With this flexibility, the number of computers that can be backed up can vary month to month, but the monthly fee of $99.00 will be billed per month for the entire year. A one time shipping and handling fee will be billed at the time of purchase of the OneXafe Solo.

Cloud Services is sold in three Service levels. 1) Cloud Basic. Secure offsite storage of critical business backups with full system restore. 2) Cloud Plus. Comes with everything in Cloud Basic, plus immediate file & folder recovery or 3) Cloud Premium. Comes with everything in Cloud Plus, and virtualization of systems and failover in the cloud

(Full DRaaS)

Each comes with 1TB of storage and is pooled at the MSP level for each service level.

Are there any good resources for learning how to consolidate backups?

I am a first time user of ShadowProtect products and would like to limit the amount of storage required.

I do not have Image Manager (and would prefer not to use it).

Then if your primary destination experienced an issue at Site A where the .spf was compromised or deleted, rather than starting a new backup chain, you could copy it back from the local, secondary destination USB, rather than over the WAN from the primary replication destination at Site B.

For various reasons it might be necessary to adjust the activation or installation of a ShadowProtect agent and as such might require steps which would otherwise require a new backup chain. Since the backup job information is stored in the protected server's registry, to continue on an existing chain it is a matter of exporting and importing the relevant registry key information. The export steps must be done prior to uninstalling the ShadowProtect software.

The following registry keys would need to be exported as well:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\ShadowProtectSvc\EmailOptions

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\ShadowProtectSvc\Parameters\do

Note: If the "do" registry key is not exported, then you will have to manually re-create the destination information in the agent configuration. The Jobs sub keys contain information pointing to the destination object ("do", what is configured in the agent's Destination tab) but it also copies some of the information. If you originally configured the destination bath as an IP address but after importing the Jobs information you switch and use a hostname, the initial backup attempts will fail because it "can't find" the destination. Any change to the destination must be followed with an update to the job wizard.

Note Instructions: If manually creating or otherwise changing destinations, go to the agent's Job tab, click Edit along the top (don't right click and use Edit schedule), click Next through the Job wizard till you reach the destination drop down selection. Pick the correct destination or otherwise confirm it's the accurate path and reference, click Next through the rest of the panels and Finish out the wizard. That will update the Jobs information with the right Destination information.

Arcserve and StorageCraft are merging their data protection, backup and disaster recovery (BDR) technology businesses, the two companies say. The resulting storage company will be a Top Five pure-play provider of data protection technologies sold exclusively through channel partners, the firms assert.

The duo, backed by private equity firms Marlin Equity Partners and TA Associates, expects the deal to receive regulatory approval within two to four weeks, company executives tell ChannelE2E. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Arcserve CEO Tom Signorello will lead the combined business. StorageCraft President Douglas Brockett will shift to that title at Arcserve. The combined executive team will have a mix of Arcserve and StorageCraft veterans, Signorello says.

At first glance, the deal involves data protection product families with overlapping capabilities, ChannelE2E notes. But take a closer look, Signorello and Brockett say, and multiple deal synergies emerge. Chief among them, the executives assert:

Once the M&A deal is confirmed, Marlin will own a majority stake in the combined businesses. TA Associates will have a minority -- but "significant" -- stake in the combined company, Signorello and Brockett say.

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