I loved the product so far. Except we just attempted to do a restore.
Altaro allows you to install on Server 2008 R2 and says it's supported for backups. That's our physical server OS, so, perfect. It's been backing up great for about a week.
However, we just found out restoring Server 2008 R2 isn't supported when attempting to do a restore to VHD in our test environment.
Is there another way to restore server 2008 R2? If not, why is server 2008 r2 listed as supported for backups? What's the use case?
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Matt
said
3 months ago
Hi Joel, we do indeed support backing up 2008 R2 servers but these must be restored to 2012 or newer OS's.
Rather than disabling backups of 2008 R2 altogether because of a limitation on the restore, we decided to offer that option anyway as you can still restore that 2008 R2 server to a 2012+ Server host.
We do not have any current plans to change this behaviour, but we will monitor feedback as usual of course :)
Hi Joel, we do indeed support backing up 2008 R2 servers but these must be restored to 2012 or newer OS's.
Rather than disabling backups of 2008 R2 altogether because of a limitation on the restore, we decided to offer that option anyway as you can still restore that 2008 R2 server to a 2012+ Server host.
We do not have any current plans to change this behaviour, but we will monitor feedback as usual of course :)
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Joel Tolbert
said
3 months ago
Thanks for the clafification! Can I install the physical backup software on a VM? I thought it was only for physicals. Our problem is we converted everything to 2019 vms, and just have a few 20008R2 physicals laying around.
We could always spin up a newer eval copy OS I suppose on an old box.
I appreciate the clarification.
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Markus Grotjans
said
3 months ago
Hi.
Now for me to understand. (I have a physical Server 2008 R2) Is it possible to backup the physical 2008 R2 Server and
restore it to a Host running Server 2012R2 HyperV as VM 2008R2 Server?
My Server Hardware of 2008 R2 Server is bad and i have some Hosts with 2012R2 running. It will be great, if i can restore the 2008 R2 to
a good working 2012R2 HyperV Host as VM. I save a lot of Time.
Matt
said
3 months ago
100% correct, you can backup the 2008R2 physical server, and restore it, as a VM, to your 2012R2 hyper-v host :)
Matt
said
3 months ago
Can I install the physical backup software on a VM?
No, as the name suggests this tool is for Physical servers only.
Altaro VM Backup - will backup all your VMs from Hyper-V Server 2008R2 and upwards
Altaro Physical Server Backup - will backup your physical machines, and currently will allow you to restore them as a VM to a Hyper-V Server 2012 and upwards
Joel Tolbert
I loved the product so far. Except we just attempted to do a restore.
Altaro allows you to install on Server 2008 R2 and says it's supported for backups. That's our physical server OS, so, perfect. It's been backing up great for about a week.
However, we just found out restoring Server 2008 R2 isn't supported when attempting to do a restore to VHD in our test environment.
Is there another way to restore server 2008 R2? If not, why is server 2008 r2 listed as supported for backups? What's the use case?
Hi Joel, we do indeed support backing up 2008 R2 servers but these must be restored to 2012 or newer OS's.
Rather than disabling backups of 2008 R2 altogether because of a limitation on the restore, we decided to offer that option anyway as you can still restore that 2008 R2 server to a 2012+ Server host.
We do not have any current plans to change this behaviour, but we will monitor feedback as usual of course :)
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Hi Joel, we do indeed support backing up 2008 R2 servers but these must be restored to 2012 or newer OS's.
Rather than disabling backups of 2008 R2 altogether because of a limitation on the restore, we decided to offer that option anyway as you can still restore that 2008 R2 server to a 2012+ Server host.
We do not have any current plans to change this behaviour, but we will monitor feedback as usual of course :)
Joel Tolbert
Thanks for the clafification! Can I install the physical backup software on a VM? I thought it was only for physicals. Our problem is we converted everything to 2019 vms, and just have a few 20008R2 physicals laying around.
We could always spin up a newer eval copy OS I suppose on an old box.
I appreciate the clarification.
Markus Grotjans
Hi.
Now for me to understand. (I have a physical Server 2008 R2) Is it possible to backup the physical 2008 R2 Server and
restore it to a Host running Server 2012R2 HyperV as VM 2008R2 Server?
My Server Hardware of 2008 R2 Server is bad and i have some Hosts with 2012R2 running. It will be great, if i can restore the 2008 R2 to
a good working 2012R2 HyperV Host as VM. I save a lot of Time.
Matt
100% correct, you can backup the 2008R2 physical server, and restore it, as a VM, to your 2012R2 hyper-v host :)
Matt
Can I install the physical backup software on a VM?
No, as the name suggests this tool is for Physical servers only.
Altaro VM Backup - will backup all your VMs from Hyper-V Server 2008R2 and upwards
Altaro Physical Server Backup - will backup your physical machines, and currently will allow you to restore them as a VM to a Hyper-V Server 2012 and upwards
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