REDSTOR BACKUP CONSOLE ON MORE THAN ONE SERVER

[Koldov]

New post due to not getting any replies on previous, also slightly different question...

 

Originally I had a server doing everything, now I have made it a host with VMs and divided up the roles.

 

One of these VMs is the SIMS server.

 

The physical host still has the Redstor software (for off-site backup) as it is still the file share server for now and is also the chonky, fat, physical server (the SIMS VM is reasonably slim).

 

I cannot manage to get the Redstor software to backup the SIMS databases from the (remote) VM. The SIMS modules seem to allow you to connect to a remote server/database, but although it seems to be able to see them, it doesn't complete the backup and I am going round in circles trying to troubleshoot. Also that the 'SIMS shared' and 'SIMS Documents' section only seem to allow local paths and it seems to be looking for its settings from a SIMS.ini on the local computer (looking for DBAttach) which should all be executed on the remote (VM)... I don't really understand why it seems to be giving me the option of backing up a remote SIMS server, but then not really making it very easy, or not having the options to do the all the parts it says it should.

 

I don't really want to clutter up the SIMS VM with extra software and Redstor seems to hog nearly 2 GIG of RAM and needs extra disk space to make copies of what it's backing up... so if I put it on the SIMS server I believe it would then need to remote back to the file share server and pull 50+ GIG of files over to upload...

 

Does anyone know if I can do any kind of workaround?

 

The SIMS server (VM) does a backup itself (and zips it), but I don't know if it would be an option to just pick that up and upload it as we are on a limited license and data plan for Redstor and it seems to do VSS, compression and change tracking which might be thrown of uploading a zipped file as it might see it as a different file each time and upload the whole thing (and quickly eat up our allowance)... plus this doesn't include SIMS shared and SIMS Documents...