Shadow Protect question

[Velvis]

How does one drill down to a specific day to find a specific file?
It shows incremental back ups going back days and only one full backup.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

To wrangle the incrementals together with a base image, for bare StorageCraft you use their free add-on called ImageManager
https://www.storagecraft.com/products/imagemanager
Runs along side of it...and you basically manage it through this.

 

[Velvis]

Thank you I will check it out.
I'm not familiar with the product. What determines how many days it will go back?
Would you run this in addition to shadow copies?

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

You set the retention rules....so, factor in size of clients server volumes, frequency of backups, and how much stow-age you're saving to. Adjust as necessary as time goes on. Get to be pretty granular there.
I'm not a master of the product, only used it in a fairly simple form. As most of our clients we have on Datto..which, basically runs on top of this, they just put their own interface on top of it..allowing us to set retention to keep hourly backups, and when to consolidate hourly into weekly, and when to consolidate weekly into monthly, etc etc.

But basically that Image Manager is what has the smarts...to have a "base image"..and then as it backs up allllllllllllllllllllll of those incrementals, it'll track them all so when you pick a time period to restore to, it knows what combination of base image plus incres...to roll together for you and present as a full snapshot of the time period you want. Pretty cool technology!

 

[Velvis]

Would you run the built in server 2008 shadow copies as well as storage craft

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[allanc]

How does one drill down to a specific day to find a specific file?
It shows incremental back ups going back days and only one full backup.

It depends on the version of Shadow Protect.
However, in version 5. it's Tasks > Explore Backup.
You do not need to use ImageManager.
However, YMMV depending on the version.

 

[putz]

How does one drill down to a specific day to find a specific file?
It shows incremental back ups going back days and only one full backup.

The date/time of the files in your backup destination is a good start. Sounds like you are using the Continuous Incremental backup setting, where it creates a full backup, then all it does from then on out is incremental backups. It collapses the incremental backups into the full backup based on your retention options that you set with Imagemanager. If you are using continuous incremental backups, they should always be managed by imagemanager to maintain proper retention and to ensure that files are periodically re-verified.

Typically if someone wants something recovered, I will just browse out to the backup folder location find the backup file that has the date/time stamp they want, and just right lick on the file and choose quickmount. Once the backup is mounted I will recover their files and dismount the volume. Also I do not enable shadow copies if I am running backups with shadowprotect because I will usually backup as frequently as every hour for file servers so there is little benefit to having shadow copies enabled.