jabbernotty
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I have family members that run a non-technical business.
They depend on one Windows PC.
Many moons ago they acquired an Acer WHS 2003 box that they are backing up to (client and server are not in the same building).
I think there are four problems:
1) The WHS box is at least five years old.
2) I just realized that I don't know if they ever tested their solution, and I've read on several occasions that WHS 2003 restore can be unsuccessful. So in short: I don't trust this set-up.
3) The data is not stored in a format that I personally know how to restore manually.
4) I'm moving away. In the past I have manually restored data from drives for them but that will become more difficult.
I am thinking of the following solution because I am personally somewhat familiar with it:
1) Set up an HP N40L (or something more recent) as server
2) Set up BackupPC on the server
3) Use rsync to back up the client
4) Avoid any type of share from the server side, to avoid cryptolocker problems
5) Set up a mail alert that a backup has run, to mail me. That way I can keep track of whether backups are still being run.
In the long term I will want to replicate their data to my own device in a different part of the country. It would be quite bad if both client and server got stolen.
Thanks for reading. How does this sound so far?
They depend on one Windows PC.
Many moons ago they acquired an Acer WHS 2003 box that they are backing up to (client and server are not in the same building).
I think there are four problems:
1) The WHS box is at least five years old.
2) I just realized that I don't know if they ever tested their solution, and I've read on several occasions that WHS 2003 restore can be unsuccessful. So in short: I don't trust this set-up.
3) The data is not stored in a format that I personally know how to restore manually.
4) I'm moving away. In the past I have manually restored data from drives for them but that will become more difficult.
I am thinking of the following solution because I am personally somewhat familiar with it:
1) Set up an HP N40L (or something more recent) as server
2) Set up BackupPC on the server
3) Use rsync to back up the client
4) Avoid any type of share from the server side, to avoid cryptolocker problems
5) Set up a mail alert that a backup has run, to mail me. That way I can keep track of whether backups are still being run.
In the long term I will want to replicate their data to my own device in a different part of the country. It would be quite bad if both client and server got stolen.
Thanks for reading. How does this sound so far?