Yes I understand, but all are needed ;-)

1. NTFS permissions are always needed
2. Encryption is also always needed
3. Maybe not compression, but most clients like to pay less. Does compression take that much from the speed, also when CPU is almost doing nothing?

If possible on file level restore also a option to restore NTFS permissions, that will be the most perfect option. To backup Hyper-V, and when needed restore on file level inside the VM with Cloudberry client, and have a option to restore NTFS permissions. Like here, but I don't know if it's technicaly possible.

Currently, it doesn't. We have a feature request for it, so, for now, we can say that it will be implemented in one of the nearest releases. — Ted Kopylovskiy

This will be very nice, it saves a lot of time because now we have a image level AND file level backup, because sometimes a profiles gets corrupted and you want to restore only that profile we need NTFS permissions restore.

But now i'm trying to do a back-up with a lot of small files inside userprofiles and group shares and I think it's almost impossible to use for arround1 TB of data. It says like 7 KB/s till max 1 MB/s. I did already increase the threats and this is only a test to a network share.

These settings will work fine, but note that if you de-select any VM from the plan that data becomes "orphaned" and will stay on storage side, so it's better to plan beforehand and make sure you select only those VMs that you want to back up. — Matt

Sorry I don't realy undertand "orphaned", does this mean:
1. They are needed to stay on storage, for all other VM's that are backing up
2. Or just simply it doesn't do anything, like removing after x days for VM's that are not running?
3. What if I say, back-up all VM's, will it automatically remove the deleted ones after 30 days?
4. Otherwise I need to do it manualy, but then I don't understand the option:
- Deselect: Always keep the latest version, to automatically clean-up unused VM's

Lets say a customer only have a USB drive as a hybrid drive, and the drive needs to be replaced.

When I replace the USB drive, is it possible to restore cloud storage files to the USB drive and resume hybrid backup again. Without doing a new full upload again?

1) Ok I understand, what will be advised when I want to keep 7 versions. (like 7 days) and I selected to only back-up the running servers. virtual servers and want to cleanup servers older then 30 days. Is this the correct setting:
- Select: Delete verions older than 30 days
- Deselect: Always keep the latest verion, to automatically clean-up unused VM's
- Select keep number of versions for each file: 7

2) So when I have a checkpoint named "clean install", and cloudberry makes a back-up. And later I have a checkpoint, deployment from software is done. Cloudberry again makes a back-up. But later I go back to the clean install checkpoint and do a totally different software deployment. This does not matter? So always the state of the VM at the moment of back-up will be the state. So it doesn't matter if I go back in time from my snapshot from 2 weeks ago?

3) Ok, I have seen no errors in my backup reports, but in my event log on the host I have a lot of VSS errors. What to do?

I think CB 6.1 will be a little more in the future, but can you already say something about eta synthetic full for Hyper-V?

Yes, I forget that. Needed the ability to exclude virtual disks from the backup.


Sounds good, i'm very interested in whats new.

Also thanks, this is just one of the simple examples I can give. Item level restore is something totally different than restoring a complete drive. Also if you separate some data on some virtual drives, you can simply export a single drive and mount it to do a data comparison "with" NTFS permissions.

The funy thing is that the image software of Cloudberry supports exporting to VHDX and the file level restore option in the Hyper-V module of Cloudberry back-up also shows the virtual hard disk filename. Only the export button is missing ;-)

Let say we always setup our servers like
- Drive 1: C:\ System
- Drive 2: D:\ Data

The system drive will always be only 60 GB, and the data drive can be what needed, lets say 500 GB.

At the moment we use a other back-up solution, and what we do some times when a system is broken. We restore only the C:\ drive from the back-up, because the data is drive is still correct. And then we can simply replace the virtual hard drive, with the C:\ drive from the day before.

With Cloudberry I can get my C:\ partition from a backup, but this need to restore the complete virtual machine, with all hard disks. So it also restore the D:\ drive, what I don't need. So it takes to much time with restoring.

And a item level recovery will not work, on a broken system. Because you don't know what files are broken and what NTFS rights are needed. For us, the fastest way to get a broken system back-up up is to:
1. Download the system drive back-up
2. Shutdown the virtual machine
3. Rename the drive to .old
4. Copy the backup VHDX to the location
5. Startup the server, and check whats the fuck happend why it was broken,

Just takes 60 GB data of you're time. I hope you can add an option by restore, to select what drives to restore.

Let say we always setup our servers like
- Drive 1: C:\ System
- Drive 2: D:\ Data

The system drive will always be only 60 GB, and the data drive can be what needed, lets say 500 GB.

At the moment we use a other back-up solution, and what we do some times when a system is broken. We restore only the C:\ drive from the back-up, because the data is drive is still correct. And then we can simply replace the virtual hard drive, with the C:\ drive from the day before.

I can get my C:\ partition from a backup, but this is also restoring the D:\ drive wath I don't need. So it takes to much time with restoring. And a item level recovery will not work, on a broken system. Because you don't know what files are broken and you need that restored partition inclusive the NTFS rights on that server.

I hope you can add an option by restore, to select what drives to restore.

HaHa, just some minutes after I click on "post comment", I received a e-mail with a new build 5.9. And the first things I checked, where the %userprofile% options. And it's working now.

Good job, so no need for the work around above ;-)

That will be very nice, will this also be implemented for Hyper-V back-up?

I'm new to Cloudberry but can it be combined with the Dedup server, so when you back-up 20 virtual machines based on Windows 2016, not 20 times Windows 2016 will be backed-up?