Do you have a Microsoft School Agreement? Then DPM is the answer. It will be almost free. If you are a school you have a good email archiver already right? That is your granular backup. We went this route several years ago, users have to find their own accidentally deleted emails on the archiver, which they are doing just fine.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Tobias Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 1:40 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [NTSysADM] Backup software needed for schools or non-profits... I'm looking for decent backup software for our school. I know some software companies will deeply discount sales to schools or non-profits, and I'd like to focus on them to save money. We're running Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V, so would need to be able to back up virtual machines. We also have an Exchange 2010 server, so granular restore of Exchange would be nice. Full image restore capability to dissimilar hardware would be a plus. We currently backup to an eSATA dock which appears as a simple drive to the OS, which I think most software these days should be able to handle. I welcome any suggestions! Thanks, Mike
