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AWARDS AND REVIEWS
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“It is difficult to find a VM backup application that is this easy to use or that gives you as many useful features for the price. I decided to give Altaro VM Backup a score of 4.8 i.e. VirtualizationAdmin.com Gold Award.”

All features in Altaro VM Backup are available for both Hyper-V and VMware

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Get the flexibility and functionality you actually need, at pricing that's affordable and honest. Count on us to provide you with robust, fuss-free backup for your virtual machines, coupled with award-winning 24/7 support as part of the package.

Backup and replication you can bank on

Protecting your data should be easy yet flexible and powerful enough to meet your disaster recovery needs. Altaro VM Backup checks these boxes with features that include:

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  • Augmented Inline Deduplication - Drastically reduce backup storage requirements on both local and offsite locations, and therefore significantly speed up backups with our unique de-dupe process. info icon
  • WAN-Optimized Replication – You can replicate your VMs to a remote site continually, drastically improving the Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
  • Continuous Data Protection (CDP) – Switch from running daily backups to backing up as frequently as every 5 minutes through a continuous data protection model, significantly improving the Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
  • Concurrency - Run more efficient backup operations, by allowing more VMs to be backed up at the same time, allowing you to drastically reduce your defined backup window.
  • Back up live VMs by leveraging Microsoft VSS with zero downtime.
  • Fully supports Cluster Shared Volumes & VMware vCenter.
  • Schedule backups the way you want them.
  • Specify backup retention policies for individual VMs.
  • Back up VMs to multiple backup locations.
  • Native integration with multiple cloud storage providers - Store your backups to MS Azure, Amazon S3 and Wasabi with ease. Simply input your access credentials and Altaro VM Backup will securely and seamlessly handle the data transfers, without requiring any additional resources running in the cloud to provide backup storage.
  • Back up to other public clouds - Our Offsite Server, provided at no cost, can be installed on a VM in any cloud platform such as Google Storage, to act as a backup server in the cloud.
  • Grandfather-Father-Son Archiving (GFS) - Archive backup versions in addition to your continuous and daily backups, by setting up separate backup cycles so you can store a new backup version every week, every month, and every year.
  • 3-2-1 backup - Keep at least three copies of your data for added security, 2 local copies and at least 1 copy offsite. More info
  • 256-bit AES encryption - All offsite backup copies automatically benefit from 256-bit AES encryption through the secure passphrase you configure upon initial setup. Encryption is optional for local backups.
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Offsite Backup Replication

Replicate selected VMs to an offsite location for disaster recovery protection, either to your own offsite storage through your internet connection (with optimized transfer speeds through WAN Acceleration) or by enabling drive swap rotation on selected drives.

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Augmented Inline Deduplication

Augmented Inline Deduplication means that common data is only transferred to the backup or offsite location ONCE.

This process happens inline and not as a post-process like most competitors, which ensures that only changed data gets sent to your backup repository from the get go (rather than removing the identical data after the transfer). The result: Superior efficiency, drastically reduced backup storage requirements and blazing fast backup speeds.

Fast, reliable restores and recovery

Great backup is meaningless without speed, flexibility and reliability to get back up and running when your organization’s data is on the line. Altaro VM Backup offers you a host of tools to recover what you need, fast.

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  • Various restore options:
    • Granular Restore Options for full VM or individual files or emails
    • Retrieve individual files directly from your VM backups with a few clicks
    • Fast OnePass Restores
    • Restore an individual or a group of VMs to a different host
    • Restore from multiple points in time rather than just 'the most recent backup'
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  • Instantly boot any VM version from the backup location without affecting backup integrity.
  • Ensure you always have healthy backups with our unique Backup Health Monitor, which proactively monitors the health of your backup storage. Should any corruption be detected, the block(s) in question will be repaired automatically as part of the next backup job.
  • Browse through your Exchange VM backup’s file system and restore individual emails.
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Restore Clones

Restore VMs to the same Host but with a different name, without the need to overwrite your live VMs.

Full control over your backups – A single pane of glass

Being able to execute quickly and easily, with complete control over backup/restore jobs is crucial. Altaro VM Backup provides you with quick access to all hosts in your environment.

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  • Intuitive user interface makes it easy to configure and run backup/restore/replication jobs
  • Cloud Management Console - Ground-breaking, cloud-based dashboard to centrally manage and manage all your Altaro VM Backup installations from a single online console. More info
  • Support for two factor authentication (2FA) in our online management platform, Cloud Management Console (CMC)
  • RESTful API for advanced automation and reporting functionality
  • Remotely manage and configure all your backup/restore jobs
  • Queue up backup/restore jobs and move on to the next item on your list
  • Run multiple backup/restore jobs simultaneously across your hosts
  • Easily test the integrity of your backups for peace of mind
  • Purchasing options to match your needs: You can choose between purchasing an annual subscription or a perpetual license (with a renewable Software Maintenance Agreement). More info

Cloud Management Console

Simply access the Cloud Management Console remotely from your Web Browser, no need for VPN or to be onsite. Push Upgrades directly from the CMC, Backup Configuration, and License Keys to multiple Altaro VM Backup installations quickly. View backup / offsite copy / verification health information in the new CMC dashboard which will also show disconnected Installations and skipped operation schedules apart from failed backups. Initiate Backup / Offsite Copy / Restore jobs from the Cloud Management Console and monitor progress without needing to be on site.

Support for multiple technologies

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Altaro VM Backup supports both VMware as well as Microsoft Hyper-V, all from a single console. Easy.

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Exchange and SQL support

Back up Exchange Server and SQL VMs or other applications compatible with Microsoft's VSS Writer.

Support for backup for VMs on Azure Stack HCI

Back up any VMs running on Microsoft Azure Stack HCI. Read Microsoft's Solution Brief on backing up VMs running on Azure Stack HCI with ease

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Linux VM support

Back up file consistent Linux VMs without shutting down the machine.

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Flexible backup destinations

Save backups to a local drive or UNC share. Save offsite copies to local drive, UNC share, to single or multiple locations (swapped) or offsite (WAN) Backup Server.

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Native integration with MS Azure, Amazon S3 and Wasabi

It's quick and easy to store your backups to one of these cloud storage providers. All you need to do is input your access credentials to be able to transfer the data. There's no need for additional resources!

Supported backup media

  • USB external drives and flash drives eSata external drives
  • File server network shares (via UNC)
  • NAS devices (via UNC)
  • Internal hard drives (recommended only for evaluation purposes)
  • RDX cartridges
  • Offsite backup server via Internet / WAN

Support for ReFS partitions

Back up and restore VMs on/to Hyper-V host with an ReFS partition, in addition to NTFS.

Get up and running with Altaro VM Backup today

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OS Support

  • Azure Stack HCI
  • Windows Server 2022
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server (Core)
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  • VMware vCenter 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7 & 7.0
  • VMware vSphere 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7 & 7.0
  • VMware ESXi 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7 & 7.0
  • (Free VMware ESXi is not supported)
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The affordable and easy-to-use backup solution

Avoid the hassle of cumbersome installs and configurations, and enjoy reliable virtual machine (VM) backups without breaking the bank – thanks to Altaro VM Backup.

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"Functionality combined with affordable price (compared to competitive products) were the key advantages to choose Altaro VM Backup and we don't regret the decision."
Tomasz Dziedzic, IT Manager
CD Projekt

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