[LYL]Homer
11-06-2006, 11:42 PM
In order to supplement our small office's SCSI tape backup I just got an Icydock external eSATA/USB enclosure and a 320 Seagate and I want to automate backups and add password protection to either the folder I backup to or the entire disk. I have it running through the eSATA interface.
I've looked around a bit on the net but I think I need some input from you that have used programs.
This is running on Windows 2003 Small Business Server (dual Xeon 3ghz/4gb ram system) and in an emergency I'd like to be able to access it from from any WinXP box. The server is backed up by tape nightly with Vertas BackupExec 10d which is in it's .bkf format. But in case of a server failure I want to be up within minutes in our small office to access our drawing files (architecture firm). Right now the server is the only SCSI machine in the office and it runs the SCSI tape backup drive (tape is taken off-site nightly and tapes rotated). But between the SCSI interface and the proprietary .bkf format I'd be hard pressed to get any of our data within 8 hours if the mobo or something major went teets with the server.
All this SCSI/tape/proprietary file format backup stuff is nice, but if I can't get to our data relatively easily then there's a problem. And at the same time I'd like to protect our data in case someone walked off with the external hard drive enclosure. In the event of a server failure I want to be able to plug the drive into a WinXP Pro box, give a password, then have access to all of our files, preferably without installing software on a box I would turn into an 'emergency server'.
So, again, here's what I'm looking for ideally in one package -
1. Simple copy/backup program with no compression - i.e. no proprietary backup format - it just copies raw data files.
2. Automated daily backups.
3. Abilty to password/encrypt the folders or the entire drive.
4. Free or low cost.
There must be something out there!
TIA!
I've looked around a bit on the net but I think I need some input from you that have used programs.
This is running on Windows 2003 Small Business Server (dual Xeon 3ghz/4gb ram system) and in an emergency I'd like to be able to access it from from any WinXP box. The server is backed up by tape nightly with Vertas BackupExec 10d which is in it's .bkf format. But in case of a server failure I want to be up within minutes in our small office to access our drawing files (architecture firm). Right now the server is the only SCSI machine in the office and it runs the SCSI tape backup drive (tape is taken off-site nightly and tapes rotated). But between the SCSI interface and the proprietary .bkf format I'd be hard pressed to get any of our data within 8 hours if the mobo or something major went teets with the server.
All this SCSI/tape/proprietary file format backup stuff is nice, but if I can't get to our data relatively easily then there's a problem. And at the same time I'd like to protect our data in case someone walked off with the external hard drive enclosure. In the event of a server failure I want to be able to plug the drive into a WinXP Pro box, give a password, then have access to all of our files, preferably without installing software on a box I would turn into an 'emergency server'.
So, again, here's what I'm looking for ideally in one package -
1. Simple copy/backup program with no compression - i.e. no proprietary backup format - it just copies raw data files.
2. Automated daily backups.
3. Abilty to password/encrypt the folders or the entire drive.
4. Free or low cost.
There must be something out there!
TIA!