Offsite backup Software

Jon-NC · 4th December 2005

Afternoon,

I've been having a good ol' search today for some decent offsite backup products. Rsync appears quite a lot along with ahsey which i've already used somewhat.

Anybody have any other suggestions of some decent offsite backup software? Primarily for windows systems.

TIA.

4dhosting · 4th December 2005

You could look at SyncBack (http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/) - We've used it before and it's been excellent for scheduled backups over FTP, Tape, Shared Drives, etc.

It allows you to exclude certain files, produces reports of errors and there's a free version which includes most of the features you need for backups. The full version is about £16.00 and lets you backup locked/open files along with a few other features that are handy.

TITAN · 4th December 2005

Find a host who has more than 1 datacentre linked via private fiber and doesn't charge for any transfer across it. Then you can colo a NAS box at one end and your servers at the over.

Now then, who to recommend eh

UKDSL · 4th December 2005

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Originally Posted by TITAN

Find a host who has more than 1 datacentre linked via private fiber and doesn't charge for any transfer across it. Then you can colo a NAS box at one end and your servers at the over.

From the sounds of it he already has the computers/servers he wants to backup and wherever he wants to backup to, just wants a method to do it.

We use cygwin and rsync on windows boxes, free and it works fine for what we need.

Jon-NC · 4th December 2005

Thanks for your suggestions chaps.

SyncBack looks perfect, how good is it on bigger volumes? IE 100gig of CVs and index files?

Im going to take a look at that cygwin now.

UKDSL · 4th December 2005

When installing Cygwin make sure you install package"rsync" in the category "Net" as it isn't installed by default.

dch · 4th December 2005

Hi,

cwRsync is a simple install for getting rsync working on windows.

Cheers,
Sean

pelinor · 5th December 2005

If you're looking at rsync you can also try rdiff - http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ - essentially an incremental version of rsync.

Never managed to get it working on windows though...

Mish.

aXeR · 5th December 2005

Just had a look at that SyncBack, looks rather nice

aguk · 5th December 2005

Backup For Workgroups is a gret windows backup product and can backup over the net.

http://www.backup-for-workgroups.com

We use it to backup all of our Windows servers.

I know where you can get it cheap as well

jamster · 5th December 2005

http://sync2nas.sourceforge.net/

Sync2nas is a handy windows front end / gui for rsync. It comes as an installer, no need to install cygwin seperately. I think if you've got quantities of data like that rsync is ideal as it will only send what's changed. You could mount the NAS drive and run it locally as a scheduled task.

Hypermediocrity · 5th December 2005

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Originally Posted by jamster

http://sync2nas.sourceforge.net/

Sync2nas is a handy windows front end / gui for rsync. It comes as an installer, no need to install cygwin seperately. I think if you've got quantities of data like that rsync is ideal as it will only send what's changed. You could mount the NAS drive and run it locally as a scheduled task.

Thanks for the link - just been playing about with it and it looks really good. I was looking for something like this for use with a couple of clients networks - cheers!

Jon-NC · 5th December 2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by jamster

http://sync2nas.sourceforge.net/

Sync2nas is a handy windows front end / gui for rsync. It comes as an installer, no need to install cygwin seperately. I think if you've got quantities of data like that rsync is ideal as it will only send what's changed. You could mount the NAS drive and run it locally as a scheduled task.

Looks fantastic

.

Thanks.

J-B · 5th December 2005

The latest WinZip Pro has built in backup facilities via FTP.....

or

http://remote-backup.com if your looking for a commerial product

Julian

Hypermediocrity · 6th December 2005

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Originally Posted by Hypermediocrity

Thanks for the link - just been playing about with it and it looks really good. I was looking for something like this for use with a couple of clients networks - cheers!

Following on from my earlier post, just set up sync2nas with a Synology DiskStation and it works well.