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Veeam vs. Datto vs. Hyper-V Replica for Dealership Backup: A Field Comparison

By Beacon Dealer Tech · Mar 30, 2026 · 3 min read

Most dealerships we audit have backup software, but very few of them have a backup strategy that would actually survive the failure mode their server room is most likely to hit. The honest comparison between the three most common dealer backup stacks looks like this.

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