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<p>Hello colleagues,</p>
<p>We are trying to update our servers. Can someone please explain why, if we buy a "powerful server that runs 2 virtual machines (servers)", we would need to license a program called Altaro to back up those servers to a "NAS / Network Attached Storage (external drive)"? (Quotations are from the proposal we were sent)</p>
<p>Currently we run a script on our PDC (WinServer 2012) that's scheduled for every night after we close. It backs up to an external drive in-house. We also have the IT company back up that server to their remote storage.</p>
<p>We were expecting the new system to back up remotely off-site to our IT company's servers the way the current one does. This seems very confusing to me.</p>
<p>Can someone explain (preferably in English not Computer; I have no network training) why we wouldn't just do the same process (write a script to back up on a scheduled basis) for the new server? Why do we need Altaro?</p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Lynne Welch - Herrick Memorial Library of Wellington OH</div>
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