Comments on: Altaro VM Backup 7 Review – Best release ever https://www.itsmdaily.com/altaro-vm-backup-7-review-best-release-ever/ Product news, reviews and know how for IT Professionals Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:32:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Chris Hall https://www.itsmdaily.com/altaro-vm-backup-7-review-best-release-ever/#comment-162 Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:32:46 +0000 https://www.itsmdaily.com/?p=5811#comment-162 One big gotcha for this product is the fact that if you have the Deduplication service running on your guest 2012 R2 Vms for example, file level restore will not work, or it will appear to work, but corrupt a large number of files, such as PDF, .myo etc. See:http://support.altaro.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2410328
We found this out to our dismay after the upgrade from version 6.x to 7.x – the thing being that if you do go through the process of turning off Dedupe on your guest servers, not only is it very time consuming but also – existing files that have been deduped, remain so:
http://nickwhittome.com/2014/10/01/disabling-data-deduplication-on-windows-server-2012r2/

This would be OK *if* they made it explicit in the upgrade process that *file level restores on Dedupe enabled volumes would NOT be possible* – if you were to proceed. DeDupe does save a lot of space, and provide quicker backups…but, having to wait for a full disk or VM restore to get to a couple of files, is a real deal breaker.

Thanks,

Chris.

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