dtmcnamara

Hey everyone, We are outgrowing our Synology backup setup at work and I need some options to look into. Currently we pull data from our main Windows Data Center server hourly with incremental backups, backup a few Hyper-V VMs nightly and will soon be sending cold storage to a tape drive nightly as well, nothing special or complicated. We have loved out Synology systems and have had no issues with ABB until recently when needed to move some data around and found that there is no way to re-link the backup task data with a new task of the same share. This is a big issue and I can see it only becoming worse in the future as we will need to look in multiple locations manually to recover files. I have been looking into Veeam and Nakivo but just wanted to see what other options are out there. I feel like since I started to research these two options its all that's popping up in my search now and I just want to make sure I look at all options before we start to demo a new product. Main features we are wanting are incremental backups with deduplication and a decent file level restore GUI. Thanks in advance and hope everyone has a great holiday!

I must admit, I vaguely remember hearing this and upon looking into it you are 100% correct. Luckily RAM is cheap right now so its usually a small part of the cost of a system even if you build it at 1GB/TB. I might pull my system our of production and see what I can lower the RAM down too before I start to see any speed drops. Do you know of any good write ups on storage size VS RAM with ZFS? Id be interested in seeing what is really needed on larger storage setups, something like 100-200TB. I keep seeing all thats needed is 8GB, but I seriously doubt that with 100+TB. I know Synology recommends something like 32GB for 240+TB, same with a few other companies.

Everything everyone has suggested will work, but honestly isn't needed. I just recently setup a server for someone in a similar situation. They have 5-6 people that shoot but only have one editor, which makes things super simple. Also they are a not for profit company so funding is always tight. FreeNAS will work just fine with a single editor, and can even scale out to multiple editors with the correct hardware. I would suggest a 10GB switch in between the server and the workstation in order to speed up everything, but it can be done on a multi 1GB NIC setup. Just remember if you go this way, in order to get the best performance with FreeNAS 1GB of RAM per 1TB of storage.

Password cracking is another application that is greatly accelerated with Tesla cards, as long as your software is written correctly.

For GPU pass through UNRAID is going to be the easiest. Honestly anything VM related I'd recommend UNRAID, I have NEVER had any luck running VMs on FreeNAS over the last 5-6 years. Both OS have their strengths and weaknesses, and this is why I run both. For my VMs I have a box setup running UNRAID, for all my storage I run FreNAS. I even mount all of my FreeNAS data to my UNRAID VMs when needed. This also allows me to backup important data from Freenas to UNRAID to have things in 2 places.

LTT team you guys should do a video about this testing out a bunch of other drives as well, even though we know they probably wont work. The RED community is SO butthurt right now and denying so much stuff.