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<p>I have not used Altaro but their website says they offer a free
version that lets you backup up to two virtual machines. You might
just be hearing sales talk.</p>
<p> I use the free Veeam Backup and Replication Community Edition
for all of our Hyper-V backups. It backs up 5 of our virtual
machines to a local storage device and then after that I have a
remote server run a nightly rsnapshot script to copy the backup
and all shared staff drives on the network over.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Thank you,
Peter Klein
Technology Manager
Canal Fulton Public Library
330-854-4148</pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/20/20 1:16 PM, welchly--- via
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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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Wellington OH</div>
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