Kleo Bare Metal Backups review

Next up, you select whether to back up your computer to a local device such as a USB drive, or to copy the backups over the network to a remote storage location. This is another great option, especially for an enterprise that might have a SAN or shared hard drive where it wants all its backups to go.

If you have picked a network storage location, Kleo will then mount the location so that it can proceed writing to this remote location. This bit is again presented well, with a graphic displaying the progress, and a handy option to cancel the mount process if you want to.

After all this, Kleo proceeds to the bit where it copies your backup. What goes on behind the scenes is that your back-up snapshot is broken into chunks of 2GB each, which are then zipped. This makes the data more compressed, and easier to move around if you have to, as opposed to a single large-file snapshot. Each piece is named numerically so that it can be correctly retrieved during a restoration of you data.

It shows how much thought went into the design of Kleo Bare Metal Backups. The network back-up options support protocols such as NFS, SSH and CIFS. The local storage backup also supports various formats. Once the backup is complete, you are presented with a message saying how long the process took, and the name of the log file where any messages that popped up during the back-up process go.

Verdict: 3/5
A great bare-metal backup system, well designed and easy to use. The only real drawback is that many people won’t have the storage capabilities for a backup the size of their system.
Sukrit Dhandhania