 So this is a follow-up video on the solar winds backup software first thing I want to say is this video is not sponsored by spoiler winds. They're not paying me in any way I'm talking about the product from my honest review and standpoint of using the product and that's I'm talking about my experience using it and this is a product I buy and pay for I do not get it for free I don't really get a discount that I know of but you negotiate the price with your salesperson They don't think they have any their pricing public anyways, and it scales the more you buy from them the less You pay so that you know they've got all kinds of things you work out for that But I don't know that they gave me a deal because I'm saying nice things about their product But we signed up for this quite a while ago and we've been paying for it for a while So let's get that clear and out of the way now a couple things I like to test products and like to talk about I like to give you what it's like to use them I've been using this one for a few years So I have some data and feedback to give you testing things in a lab environment doesn't really give You a bigger feel for how it works because well when you're staging it all in a lab environment You don't have quite the same in-depth understanding of how it works because well You can't test every scenario and it's really difficult to and because it's lab You may not see something in the wild and then things happening Updates and everything else. How do they all work? Well, I'm here to tell you after a couple years. We're still really happy with the product and People ask me all the time. What about this product? What about that product? And there's some assumption because I'm using the solar winds MSP platform and the solar winds backup that I must have found the other products to be greatly inferior or somehow Unusable or for some other reason I don't see we started with solar winds and we've stayed with their product I have not had the time to test every backup and desk recovery system out there And I'm sure some of them work wonderfully But this one by solar winds and we're using the other solar winds tools such as their RMM all integrates very nice and tight And I can tell you that it does work. So we've went through a few disasters with clients this happens as as you have a lot of clients good news is they had our backups and We were able to completely restore servers that have failed. We were able to store the oops I deleted some folder out of things, you know people do that This is what we do is IT support is a solve problems when people accidentally delete the spreadsheet The system so works much the same. I have a more in-depth video that covers the details of how to set it up It's all still driven through a web interface, which you can access Your sister your different clients web interfaces through a special proxy. They have set up. It's it's a cool Design that allows me to without logging into the computer to run the backups You can all run them from the control panel from a web browser. All that is still in place. It still works in much the same way So you can you know do the overview of the backups? They have a nice dashboard It tells me the status of all my clients and all their backups and so all those features that you had in place are still the same Overall look and feel that they had when I did the video So I'm not going to do an updated video on the end depth but I will talk about their support and Their support was great because we had an incident with a 2003 server and this is one of those weird scenarios We I didn't test this of course when I did my demo of this because who's running 2003 server Well, we have a handful clients that are that work in some fields that have some proprietary software It just doesn't work on anything but 2003 and it happens to manage their business So it's critical and we do have the backups set up on this and it does Work, but they had an incident and you can imagine an old server running 2003. What could go wrong? Well everything and We were able to use solar winds to completely restore and the server worked But we did have problems with getting a software set up because the official support from solar winds MSP Is we only support newer versions of windows that are still in support, but this is where their support had gone ahead and was very helpful with getting it all to work properly and set it back up They have the old versions of software like yep You got to run this version this and this and it's so completely connects to our system It's missing these features that aren't even available in 2003 So they were very helpful they explained it and got it going and that's something that's really important to us Is that we don't just have a backup program that I think works We've gone through and put it to the test and had to restore both files for people who goof things and had to restore complete servers because well the Unimaginable that we have backups and plan for did happen and the server an entire radar age is burned out But of course it was an old server. So that happens Sometimes you've got to talk clients into replacing servers Sometimes they wait longer because it was in her head They should replace it and it all went wrong before they got it replaced But these backups only meant by the delay was between getting the server and running the restore now having a local Copy of it. Of course makes it really fast And it still supports that feature so it keeps one local copy then a cloud copy and it's all pre encrypted So it it's all in compliance with things. So we're still using it. We're still happy with it Haven't had a real reason to switch anyone else cuz I get calls from other places from different sales people But because this is kind of a tightly integrated with the other solar winds platform we use like their RMM tool We haven't had a real reason to change. Well, this is more just quick follow-up video on that. Oh, yes We're still using it. Yes, we're still happy with it. I'm not seeking out anything and it's like I said This isn't sponsored paid by solar winds This is just my feelings on the software that we're still using it and still happy with it I might do a follow-up video because they've added so many features that are like their RMM platform Which we still use as well And that does need an updated video so you can dig around and see I did one a while ago And I do want to do an updated video on that but functionally the software works much the same They have added a couple more features, which I'll leave a link here to the backup plans They have because they added this new backup documents feature But all the other stuff still works fine the archive revisioning the workstation backup We've been selling so we can do bare metal restores on there and SharePoint I can verify we've done my sequel backups. We don't have currently anybody running exchange anymore We've migrated them off there and I haven't tested anything with SharePoint on there But the bare metal and does absolutely work rapid recovery and if you get into it and we didn't bother with this But they do have custom branding if you wanted to Have a dashboard that you can share with your clients with it's all branded Something we don't do generally our clients are just like make it all back up and send us the bill and they're happy with it So and we are too alright. Thanks. 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