Hi!

I have an SME client with a NAS that works well and is reliable, but we are exploring options for cloudifying things in 2025. Primarily, we'd like to shoot their images up to the cloud somewhere. One of the "problem" machines is a server with some data on it, 15-20TBs across multiple drives.

I've always gone with NAS in such situations and RAID-6 has generally worked well with very few issues, with this client as well.

Machine backups, I've done with Macrium and that works well and keeps quiet. No cloud solution from them sadly.

I have enterprise clients, they are on Azure and we AutoPilot them, no endpoint backup, because it's not necessary, servers are generally protected by a BCDR appliance or we get a custom machine for Veeam and back it up locally.

As you might have guessed it, they are looking to keep it reasonably priced. The "backup budget" is $2000-$2500 for 2025. I've offered a beefy NAS drives to be put offsite, they said no, because that's not "the cloud".

Only images should be stored, Full and incremental.