Bsackup software for Windows server

[Fairlight]

I forgot to mention that Reflect is substantially faster than Acronis, even
when it has to shuffle and consolidate the incrementals.

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On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 03:15:12PM -0500, Fairlight via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> 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?
> > 
> > 
> > Richard Kreiss
> > GCC Consulting
> > 
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