Remote Backup to NAS

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marley1

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Hey all, figured I'd ask some of the data masters here. I have a client that owns a printing shop and likes to store clients blueprints and data for a year or so. Right now they only have 100GB of data.

They are thinking of maybe putting in a cheaper server (raid 1 or raid 5) and setting up a domain for folder redirection and to store the files on this. We may also look into putting Acronis on each machine and backup an image to this server.

They do want some offsite backup. We have a 2TB NAS available as well which I was hoping to use at the remote location to backup to. Its a ReadyNas RND4000 - http://www.netgear.com/products/home/storage/work-and-play/rnd4000.aspx so it does support some items like FTP, so maybe I could just FTP Backup to it?

Any opinions
 
You might check out if the WAN is fast enough to move the data (or a copy) to a remote location.
 
FTP backups sounds like a nightmare to me, that is something you manually have to do, and after about a month you will give up and rarely ever do backups again.

i suggest setting up a cron job to rsync the data nightly to a remote server.
i have no idea what operating systems anything is running though...?
 
Sorry more information:

Server hopefully Server 2008 R2 Foundation
Connection atleast 10/1 or higher, maybe 20/5 at both locations. I can do the initial backup on same lan so only be differential.

Goal is some software to do the Server to the NAS over WAN. I could setup a VPN if I had too, ideally would prefer just to open a port. Something secure.

Its a ReadyNas unit. If not cost effective or ideal I will just suggest to swap externals.
 
I just recently setup something for a friend of mine. He just has one computer in his office and wanted to have his folders synchronized so that if he makes changes at home they show up at his office and vice versa. Should work for an off site backup plan as well, not to mention its secure.

Office: Windows 7 PC
Home: Windows 7 PC

1. Setup VPN on the W7 client on his home computer.
2. Created a simple batch file that connects to the VPN and runs robocopy on the folder(s) in question.
Code: 
SET LOC1=""
SET LOC2=""
rasdial home USERNAME PASSWORD
robocopy %LOC1% %LOC2%
robocopy %LOC2% %LOC1%
rasdial home /DISCONNECT
3. Then I configured his to to run the script at logon. You could also just have him run it manually as well as on a scheduled basis.

EDIT: You could also add a couple of lines to the script to email you a copy of the log when the script runs. There is a DOS based mail program called BLAT.
 
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Maybe you could run Crashplan?

Initial copy would take a while but after that it shouldn't be too bad.
 
Can crashplan backup to a remote nas?

how would it backup? I haven't used crashplan before.

I know handy backup dos backup to ftp just don't know
 
How would that setup work?

I thought you need crash plan on each side. Or is that not right
 
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