[OPLINTECH] Help - Altaro?

[Peter Klein]

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.

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.

Thank you,
Peter Klein
Technology Manager
Canal Fulton Public Library
330-854-4148

On 5/20/20 1:16 PM, welchly--- via OPLINTECH wrote:
>
> Hello colleagues,
>
> 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)
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Thank you,
>
> -- 
> Lynne Welch - Herrick Memorial Library of Wellington OH
>
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