Online backup solutions -- recommendations?

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Greetings,

I am looking for recommendations for an online backup service. The server that will need to be backed up is an HP ProLiant DL380 with Windows 2008 R2 x64. It would be good if it didn't try to upload full backups every single day, but only files that have changed because after the service provider has a full backup of the server not many files will change on a weekly or daily basis (so why make full backups all the time when only 0.001% files/settings/configurations are affected?). Thanks!!
 
For home use I use crashplan and am very happy with it. Not sure I'd go with cloud backups for servers though. Depends on the use case.
 
For alot of small business, I use Microsoft's backup utility with the recovery option, save it to either a dedicated volume or on-premise server volume. I then back-up the volume to the cloud- Amazon's S3, CrashPlan, CloudBerry, whatever. This gives flexibility between rapid file/computer recovery and disaster recovery. I have ONE small business that is actually using tape backups reliably and correctly.
I've used CrashPlan and am trialing CloudBerry's re-branded software.
If a small business doesn't have a server, I try to sell them WHS for workstation backup, then back WHS up to the cloud.
 
It depends on the type of the data you are storing in your HP server. If you are storing normal files and folder in the HP server and want to back them up, you can use any application (like StoreGrid, BackupExec, CrashPlan...).

If you are storing application specific data, like Exchange Server, SQL Server..., then you need to handle them differently.

There are lot of Online Service Providers available in the market. Based on your requirement such as support for type of files to backup, backup storage (NAS/SAS/Cloud), security, reporting, redundancy, etc.,.

As you are looking for supporting incremental backups for changed & new files alone, you can look for Online Services like StoreGrid, Ahsay, Asigra, Dropbox.... Using these services, you can either host your own online backup server and backup your data to it or backup your data to the already hosted backup service providers backup server. Anyway, StoreGrid provides both the services.

Aravind
 
RocketTech said:
For alot of small business, I use Microsoft's backup utility with the recovery option, save it to either a dedicated volume or on-premise server volume. I then back-up the volume to the cloud- Amazon's S3, CrashPlan, CloudBerry, whatever. This gives flexibility between rapid file/computer recovery and disaster recovery. I have ONE small business that is actually using tape backups reliably and correctly.
I've used CrashPlan and am trialing CloudBerry's re-branded software.
If a small business doesn't have a server, I try to sell them WHS for workstation backup, then back WHS up to the cloud.
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The thing with this, it could take a week or two to backup a huge server backup of a volume.
Offsite backup is best done with software that is meant for this, you "seed" the initial huge backup...and then from then on it's incremental changes that are maintained in one updated offsite file.
 
For my important data at home I use cloudberry and back up to MS Azure. Works great, and does incremental backups.
 
Yes, YeOldeStonecat is correct.

For the initial full backup, the size of data to be uploaded to the online backup server will be huge and very time consuming. To avoid this, major online backup service providers supports "Seed Backup" feature. Using this feature, you can do the initial full backup locally to a external disk drive and ship it the online backup server and import them to it.

After that, you can continue incremental/differential backup to the online backup server.

Though your backup data is stored in Amazon Cloud storage, you can use the import/export feature to import your data to the online server.

:)
 
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