Bsackup software for Windows server

[Brian K. White]

Holy cow. How do you not know what I meant? How is that even possible?
-- 
bkw


On 01/10/2018 09:00 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> Brian,
> 
> Mark was just stating his opinion and what "HE" has run into in testing
> various backup options.  Keep in mind that this is his opinion.
> 
> I have found that his analysis on various issues are accurate although you
> might not like the "tone" as written.
> 
> Since I have spoken with Mark, I can put his "voice" to what I am reading.
> That makes a big difference.
> 
> I value the opinions of each member of the  list when they offer it.  I can
> still research what I am asking about and make my own decision.  But at
> least I have a good starting point.
> 
> One of my clients is using Barracuda (he didn't say if it was one of their
> appliances or just their software.  My client also suggested hiring a
> company to do the installation and configuration.  That is not a simple
> solution. For the client I am researching for,  Barracuda would be overkill.
> 
> Richard Kreiss
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Filepro-list [mailto:filepro-list-
>> bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Brian K.
> White
>> via Filepro-list
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 5:30 PM
>> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>> Subject: Re: Bsackup software for Windows server
>>
>> What an unhelpful axxhole that Fairlight guy is.
>> --
>> 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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