In Part 1 of this review, I walked through the deployment and initial configuration of the Unitrends Free backup appliance. I'm now going to touch briefly on some of the other features of the product before summarising my thoughts. Recovery There's no point taking backups if they don't work, right? Well there are a few options available here. The first of them is a file level recovery. This mounts a VM's backed up disks as file shares on the backup appliance. To test it, I created a couple of test VMs to backup and selected to restore from one. …
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I was asked to give a new, free backup tool a quick road-test recently. Unitrends have had an Enterprise version of their backup software for some time. And, as I've used it a bit in my lab with an NFR license in the past I was only too happy to give Unitrends Free a go. Features As a free edition, you expect a basic set of features. The goal of such offerings is normally to get you hooked, but wanting more. Unitrends Free offers the following features: Backup from VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V Unlimited VMs and host CPU sockets…