Bsackup software for Windows server

[Chris Rendall]

I will second VEEAM Agent for Windows.  There is a free version and it's very robust.

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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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> 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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