Thanks once again for a great video! For an even deeper dive search for "Vates" here on YT, He's done several videos on XOA backup as well., Vates is one of the developers of XOA.
Hi Tom! When we creating remote NFS storage there's two options: multiple data blocks or whole VDI file. Could you talk about them and which one do you recommend?
Great video! Couple of questions though. With just 1 server running with local backup, how do I replicate all those internal backups offsite? Or even better can I set a remote that points to some freenas or any other program offsite and have the backups there? What options are there?
Continuous replication does not store many vhds on the remote system like a delta backup; it merges the differential vhd on the remote side to the full VM (ready to boot) to create a new VM copy and then deletes the old copy on the remote pool/system. This makes it the optimal DR option in my opinion because it then gives you an always ready to boot version of the VM offsite and also allows you to only send changes making it efficient like delta backups.
@@LanceFogle I guess backups are for when you are ready to lose some data(or you have a system without much of changes) while replication is for when you want to lose only the least amount of data possible.
Thanks once again for a great video! For an even deeper dive search for "Vates" here on YT, He's done several videos on XOA backup as well., Vates is one of the developers of XOA.
Thanks Tom, great content as always , one of these days I’ll get round to building my home lab.
Another amazing video. I wish we had amazing MSPs like you in Canada
Hi Tom! When we creating remote NFS storage there's two options: multiple data blocks or whole VDI file. Could you talk about them and which one do you recommend?
multiple data blocks supports faster merge of delta but you HAVE TO have a file system that can support it.
Great video! Couple of questions though. With just 1 server running with local backup, how do I replicate all those internal backups offsite? Or even better can I set a remote that points to some freenas or any other program offsite and have the backups there? What options are there?
Continuous replication does not store many vhds on the remote system like a delta backup; it merges the differential vhd on the remote side to the full VM (ready to boot) to create a new VM copy and then deletes the old copy on the remote pool/system. This makes it the optimal DR option in my opinion because it then gives you an always ready to boot version of the VM offsite and also allows you to only send changes making it efficient like delta backups.
Of course if you are just storing locally with the intent to replicate off-site for cold storage it doesn't make sense to do continuous replication.
@@LanceFogle I guess backups are for when you are ready to lose some data(or you have a system without much of changes) while replication is for when you want to lose only the least amount of data possible.
Great video Tom!
10:15 did you mean to keep it as SMB?
I did not click save, so it did not change it. Use NFS.
Wait did I snag first comment?
nope