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Thanks Al. I have been looking at Paragon's Drive Backup but the regular price is around $500 per server. I do not know whether the technician license would work if the machines simultaneously use the installed software as a part of the backup schedule. I am also looking into DriveImageXML, which is free but it requires a Bart PE image for the restore, and VMWare, which is also useful for disaster recovery. -----Original Message----- From: Al Bray [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:53 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Bare metal restore software One company that doesn't seem to get much press but that I think has excellent products For Drive Backup and Restore, Drive Partition Management, and Enterprise Imaging are products by Paragon Software Group. The also have technician licensing available where one technician can run the software on an unlimited number of servers for the Enterprise versions of their software. When we were migrating our 15 windows servers off their direct storage to our SAN, I purchased the technician license for the Enterprise version Partition Manager 8 software and was able to migrate all the servers over quickly. They also have a product called Drive Backup 8.5 that is very close in feature set to the Acronis software product, but at a much nicer price point, especially if you have a large number of servers and only a couple of technicians that will be responsible for backups and restores. Worth checking out anyway. - Al http://www.drive-backup.com/enterprise/server/ =============================== Al Bray Systems Analyst University Services Michigan State University Phone: 517-355-0357 Ext. 161 Fax: 517-353-2024 email: [log in to unmask] >>> Laurence Bates <[log in to unmask]> 9/5/2007 5:24 PM >>> As far as I can see, the folk at Acronis are very intransigent about the price of their software. I havn't found any deals on the web and they want $553 per server (Quantity 25) for educational institutions. That's the price of a fairly decent car. I just can't see paying that much for disk imaging software. For what it's worth, they do a Home version that works with Windows 2003 but they do not recommend it for that purpose. I think that it might work for simple servers but it cannot see more complex drive setups. So I guess that I'm still looking, which is a pity. Acronis could make so much more if they charged a reasonable price per copy. That certainly worked for Microsoft... -----Original Message----- From: Peter J Murray [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:08 AM To: Laurence Bates Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Bare metal restore software He got us a really good rate on NOD32, so I'm sure he might be able to work out something with Acronis. Laurence Bates wrote: > Thanks. I might try that. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter J Murray [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 10:02 AM > To: Laurence Bates > Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Bare metal restore software > > I like Acronis too. Perhaps an email to Ron Rivard asking him to look > into negotiating a special rate for MSU. > > Laurence Bates wrote: > >> I am looking into disk imaging software (again) and finding that the >> prices for software that will do live image backup for Windows server >> 2003 are still too high. I like Acronis True Image Server for Windows >> 9.1 for its convenience but the best price that I have seen it at is >> $629. What are other people using? >> >> >> >> >> >> Laurence A. Bates >> >> College of Education >> >> Michigan State University >> >> 217E Erickson Hall >> >> East Lansing >> >> MI 48824 >> >> 517-355-2178 >> >> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >> >> >> >> > > > __________ NOD32 2507 (20070905) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > __________ NOD32 2507 (20070905) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com __________ NOD32 2509 (20070906) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com