Veeam Backup Essentials is less than $1,000 and may work for many here.

https://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Veeam-Backup-Essentials-Standard-for-Hyper-V-license/3085689.aspx

Veeam Backup and Replication for one CPU socket is also less than $1,000.

https://www.cdw.com/shop/products/V...amp;programidentifier=3&RecoType=RSR

I would think backing up the Hyper-V Virtual Machine in its entirety then restoring it would preserve Amazing Charts' certification of the server. However, I have yet to test that.

If using Veeam I recommend keeping at least 1 week's worth of backups AND BACKING UP EVERY TWO HOURS. Veeam makes this easy because of its "forever incremental" approach and it's great ability to deduplicate files and so forth. It's also a very fast backup.

Ransomware does NOT occur slowly. It goes through your network as fast as it can encrypting as much as it can so the bad guys can maximize the ransom demand.

JamesNT


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