For backups, I've been pushing Veeam very hard. Elaboration:

* It does both local and offsite backup for a reasonable cost.
* It's "forever incremental" backup is awesome.
* All of my clients are virtualized. So if we do a restore, we don't just restore AC, we restore the entire Virtual machine.
* I can pull out individual files from a virtual machine backup if needed.

In every case, clients have more to restore than just AC. For example, user My Documents are redirected to the server. Another example is not having to rebuild a domain controller and all the Group Policy settings that go with it.

JamesNT

James Summerlin
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