Bsackup software for Windows server

[Fairlight]

Macrium Reflect.

A while back, I was using Acronis TrueImage.  It's a PoS which never had
working WinPE media (crashed at boot), didn't include your drivers (like
custom SATA drivers), and they dumbed down the UI so badly that it was next
to useless.

When I needed to switch software, I tried pretty much every solution out
there, free and commercial, which seemed promising at all.

In the end, Macrium Reflect was the best engineered, the most stable, and
the most versatile.  It's got a -slight- learning curve, but it's -well-
worth the power, and you can ignore a lot you don't need (like PowerShell
extensions).  It has a -working- WinPE (actually three, since you get to
choose which version of PE you use) which actually drags in all your
drivers (including wireless, although WinPE itself can't use wireless at
all), which I've verified will see my network storage.  And...AND...it
actually gives you accurate estimates of operations at the -start- of the
backup process.  It also has forever incrementals, and you can mount any
partition in realtime to grab files off of it as you would with tape, if
you need to...from -any- of the incrementals!

To contrast, Acronis would take a third of a day to even give me a first
estimate of the backup duration.  Then, when you'd close the window, you'd
have to wait a third of a day again to get the estimate back (it'd be blank
again).  THAT is how poorly Acronis is written (as were many of the
alternatives I demoed).  Reflect analyses your disks up-front, and you have
an accurate ETA at every step of the way thereafter, which is basically
under a minute in on my system.  It literally knows the second it's scanned
the disk partition tables and filesystem maps, and the count has never
jumped around on me.

Oh...and unlike some other solutions which -claim- to use ShadowCopy,
Reflect's actually -works-.  (I remember one solution which claimed to use
it, but which would never back up system files on a live system.)

Macrium Reflect or bust.  And it's only $75 for the Workstation version.
If you get the annual support (a whopping $5 extra...or was it $4?), and
they release a new major version, you actually get that version.  I got
from v6 to v7 by virtue of having that extremely inexpensive support.

I won't recommend another product for Windows backups.

Go Macrium, or go home.

mark->


On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 07:15:33PM +0000, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> Just want to pole "the List" as to what backup software you would recommend for w Windows Server?
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> Richard Kreiss
> GCC Consulting
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