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Automated Network Backup System.

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Kido1986

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What would you guys suggest for creating an automated abckup system for 7-10 computers for a company? This will be needed to just backup their company files, dont need entire computer backups. They want it to just saved all of their documents every-so often without having to do anything. What hardware/Software should I look for? I dont have a number for their budget but this isn't some unlimited budget, so please be reasonable.

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Im thinking using NAS and some automated abckup software, but I dont know what software would be good for that.
 
the cheap option would be a scheduled task with the windows built-in backup program.
 
Now how about the reliable, its-actually-gonna-work option :D

I know there is software out there, but I don't know what's good and what's bad. That's why I'm asking youguys.
 
I use Acronis True Image.

I have jobs on each machine that backup to a server. I get a new full image each week, but of course you can schedule and tune it to what you want.
 
Will it do just files if I want? Ive never used itbut the people I know that used Arconis use it for full system backups, which isn't what this company needs.
 
You can mount the image file as a drive (kinda like mounting an ISO with DemonTools) and look at it just like a drive.

They have a trial version which will let you play with it and examine the docs.
 
If you could convince them to store all their documents on a Linux-based NAS machine, it gets a lot easier and more flexible; you can create snapshot volumes trivially with EVMS. So you have a backup script which (nightly, hourly, however often you need) creates a snapshot, backs it up to another filesystem (or to another machine) and then terminates the snapshot.

You could also leave the snapshot around, and just re-initialize it; if you make these publically readable people could recover their work from an hour ago without bugging you about doing a full recovery. Here's how this would work. You have a set of directories, named "1 hour ago", "2 hours ago", etc (or whatever you feel like). There is also a set of snapshots, each corresponding to a directory. Once an hour you re-initialize the oldest, bringing it up to date, and then shift everything down one position and mount it at the "1 hour ago" position. Additionally, once a day (say at 3am) you create a differential backup to another machine using whatever tool you're comfortable with.

 
Nah. Looking jsut to do NAS, simple and effective. Plus, NAS is prob cheaper than building an extra computer just for backups.
 
unhappy_mage said:
If you could convince them to store all their documents on a Linux-based NAS machine, it gets a lot easier and more flexible; you can create snapshot volumes trivially with EVMS. So you have a backup script which (nightly, hourly, however often you need) creates a snapshot, backs it up to another filesystem (or to another machine) and then terminates the snapshot.

You could also leave the snapshot around, and just re-initialize it; if you make these publically readable people could recover their work from an hour ago without bugging you about doing a full recovery. Here's how this would work. You have a set of directories, named "1 hour ago", "2 hours ago", etc (or whatever you feel like). There is also a set of snapshots, each corresponding to a directory. Once an hour you re-initialize the oldest, bringing it up to date, and then shift everything down one position and mount it at the "1 hour ago" position. Additionally, once a day (say at 3am) you create a differential backup to another machine using whatever tool you're comfortable with.

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yeah, we need to talk about this someday soon...
 
Feel free to email me about this. Or anything, heck :p Or, start your own thread.

Kido, I think you're going to find that NAS devices are rather inflexible. You can probably make it work, but it's going to require some fiddling.

 
I'd second the windows backup option. Pretty much backup exec lite, works like a charm and its free.
 
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