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Not sure what product I need, please see and help! TY

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Hi all,

Take "backups" aside, I have 2 Clients I am trying to purchase the correct Acronis product for.

 

Each client has only 1 server on his site.. This server is DC,AD,Print,Filer etc...

 

hosted exchange so no EX to worry about

 

Now I backup ALL the data to Carbonite online.  so "backups" of data is not my problem..

 

What I want is very simple, so please help me decide my lowest cost option for what I need..

 

I want a product that will "Image" the machines, lets say I do this once or twice per week to an external drive.. I want a scenario that my clients server 2008 R2 machine crashes, corrupts, etc and I can take the "image file" and just boot up a different machine, vm, same physical machine, anything and have ALL the data in tact and the domain up and running with no extra steps??

 

So I would need all the AD, Forest, Usernames, Group Policys, etc just up and running just like that...

 

Does that make sense?? How does RAID come into play? Do I image also the "data/filer drives" or just the O/S? .. PLEASE help if you can with recommending exactly what product I need... TY

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I recommend you use the Acronis Backup product, which is a tool for professionals.  Acronis True Image is a tool for consumers that doesn't support Windows 2008 server. https://kb.acronis.com/content/56517