Bsackup software for Windows server

[Wayne Smith]

VEEAM Agent for Windows works great for me,  saved my bacon at least
once....

Wayne Smith
Port Orange, Florida

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 4:29 PM, Brian K. White via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> 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->
>>
>> 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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