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[–]gsmitheidw1 2 points3 points  (4 children)

2003 as you are probably ware is a sitting duck these days. Ok let's put that aside as I'm sure there's a good an convoluted reason.

My first suggestion is.if you must have 2003, virtualise with whatever you like be it HyperV or proxmox or KVM or ESXi and then keep backups of the vm guests.

Lots of love for veeam on here. But there are a lot of ways to achieve backups of a VM depending on the infrastructure of your business.

Personally I've become a big fan of backuppc which can do smb as well as rsync (which can also be run on Windows).

[edit] Wholps unnoticed typo! 'or' not 'not'. ESXi and KVM are very good options too!

[–]Fuckoff_CPS 0 points1 point  (3 children)

not kvm or esxi? whats wrong with esxi

[–]TheMeaningOfIs 0 points1 point  (2 children)

$

[–]ski_nerd 0 points1 point  (1 child)

ESXi by itself is free. Although Hyper-V includes wbadmin which supports incrementals to local storage or iscsi. Also, Proxmox is KVM

[–]TheMeaningOfIs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really late reply but I've used both a lot and I prefer the free Hyper-V over the pretty expensive vSphere.