Bsackup software for Windows server

[Brian K. White]

What an unhelpful axxhole that Fairlight guy is.
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bkw


On 01/10/2018 03:27 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> I forgot to mention that Reflect is substantially faster than Acronis, even
> when it has to shuffle and consolidate the incrementals.
> 
> m->
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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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