If Altaro do honour it ,you have 1 year with each product to make your choices Not sure about Spiceworks users on the Altaro one, but the other 2 allow for 1 year NFR for Spiceheads. Veeam and Unitrends offer FREE Spiceheads versions, both have limitations and restrictions, but if you want to test them out, you have 1 year to do so. You ask about robustness, but your issues from what you posted are due to you rebooting hosts mid-way through a backup process, Ok i accept systems crash, but hypervisors are fairly rock solid these days, so if you have issues which require frequent reboots or your hosts are having issues, then backups are the least of your worries. What automation, sorry, but no, i don't know what you mean, are you referring to backup consistency checks? And I do need this automation, without it. I've since then learned to check the Nakivo before I even think of rebooting, but even if the automation is set up as it is, there is no guarantee that something extraordinary might happen. Why are you rebooting the hypervisor during backups anyway, why are your backups not done out of working hours to avoid things like this? I also do question is Veeam is more robust vs Altaro when it comes to my problem with Nakivo. But it does me no good if the backup completely fails and I need to restore something - the way NAKIVO is doing it is that I can't access anything any more. We have no extremely critical usage on the systems, and even if the system is dead for a day or two, the world will still be fine. My boss has no problems paying for something way more, but only if it really benefits us. well you know how it is.Ģ) Yah, I am aware, but I do question if there is need for it. Nevertheless, I do wonder if Altaro would work better - and yes, even if the job does not terminate, but is interrupted suddenly. If I decide to test Altaro out, I should really do multiple reboots to see if I can 'fail' it. 1) Hm, then it's really hard to test it out.

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