What kind of back up sw do you use?

by **Herbus** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:59 pm

Daily I backup my server (raid 1 - mirror) to my Nas. I'm not satisfied with the current software that I use (older Norton version).
I want to make an incremental backup of the entire disk or incremental file/folder backup. I want reporting by e-mail.
Which back up software do you use?

Herbus (Jos)

by **drmacchi** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:26 am

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cbnew.htm this is really good and free until 8.0, don't remember about email report

by **TANE** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:40 am

Jos,
There are lot of backup applications.
At work we use Secondcopy
some others that also work fine including FTP to external location
http://www.superflexible.com/
Acronis

Blade Backup (Homeseer plugin) will also do the work.

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by **Rene** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:17 am

I use open source, bacula (http://www.bacula.org). Highly sophisticated backup software.

Rene.

by **Edwin2008** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:44 pm

I use deltacopy (a rsync thing for windows) to backup the server to a netgear/infrant nas, the nas also run's a shadowcopy and perodic copy to attached USB drive.
Also the server is backuped online for just in case and running acronis images of the system drive to the NAS

by **Alexander** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:49 pm

herbus: don't use incremental. Don't forget that if 1 incremental is corrupted the only backup you can use is the full backup. It's like having RAID-0. Use differential if you don't need to have so many backups.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_backup

Alexander

by **Mversluis** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:45 pm

standard sbs 2003 backup software

by **DJF3** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:03 am

The following website has some GREAT suggestions for free backup software.

ghacks.net/2009/04/26/the-10-best-windo ... -programs/

Bye
DJ

by **roscoe** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:51 pm

I have a soft spot for Drive Snapshot
http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/

It's more a disk image backup program, but reasons why I really like it are ...

1. No need to install and restart, can run from a small <150kb exe
2. Amazing OS support from NT onwards
3. Network support good
4. Possible to convert disk images to vmware
5. Handy explorer to get to specific backup files/directories

Years ago I got completely annoyed with the likes on symantec etc

Sorry but its not free

ARoss
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by **Verkenner** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:55 pm

I use ActiveBackup.
Every night at 04:00 o'clock automaticly full-backup from Homeseer to NAS.
It's a HomeSeerPlugin you can find in the Updater.
And realy dutch: It's....Free. ;-)

Verkenner

by **Francois** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 2:26 pm

Windows Home server, automatic backups every night of every pc and laptop I have at home. Saved my day twice now. Had a hdd going south and restored the entire HSserver (running Vista) in 20 minutes without interaction what so ever. It just asks you which backup to restore and 20 min. later you are back in business.

Last beta upgrade for HS wasn't succesfull, instead of trying to figure out the problem, I just restore..

by **AshaiRey** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 1:36 pm

BLBackup here.