<div dir="ltr"><div>Can't speak to Acronis, but since people are tossing out their own suggestions too...</div><div><br></div>If you want a completely free peer-supported open source solution using hardware you provide yourself, UrBackup does file and/or image (bare metal restore) backups. (I just run it on an otherwise decommissioned ~10-12 year old server platform that has a RAID storage subsystem with about 40TB capacity using a set of newer HDDs.)<div><br></div><div>I've been using UrBackup for maybe ~10 years now to do nightly off-site backups of servers and key workstations as a free service for the libraries I work with. I make file backups of the linux servers and both file and image backups of the Windows servers/computers. (The file backups make restoring individual files easy and the image backups make restoring a Windows OS easy.) Currently backing up around 60 servers with plenty of capacity to spare.</div><div><br></div><div>2 cents <br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>______________________________<br><b>Chad Neeper</b><br><font size="1">Senior Systems Engineer</font><br><br><b>Level 9 Networks</b><br><font size="1">740-548-8070 (voice)<br>866-214-6607 (fax)</font><br><br><font size="1"><i>Full IT/Computer consulting services -- Specialized in public libraries</i></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 1:32 PM Tim Laino via OPLINTECH <<a href="mailto:oplintech@lists.oplin.org">oplintech@lists.oplin.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Depending on your needs, check out Veeam's Back & Replication Community Edition. It's free for up to 10 workloads and there are options for bare metal restore.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.html" target="_blank">https://www.veeam.com/virtual-machine-backup-solution-free.html</a></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Tim Laino, Manager, Systems & Technology Services</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Wadsworth Public Library</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">132 Broad Street</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Wadsworth, OH 44281</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">330-335-2600</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 12:14 PM Jim Lack via OPLINTECH <<a href="mailto:oplintech@lists.oplin.org" target="_blank">oplintech@lists.oplin.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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