Backing up data

[friedrice]

Howdy all,

How would you backup data to an online server? To better explain my question, here's the situation.

I have a work computer that is, at my place of business. It's a non-forprofit organization so we do not have any type of tape backup server or anything like that. The computer I use has Windows XP. We use DSL as our internet connection.

At my home, I have a server I use to host my web page, host a Quake III game, and... that's about it. The Operating System on the server is Windows 2k3 Small business. I have Cable Modem at my home, but with a "sticky" ip address. This means my same IP gets recycled so it's basically a static IP.

Is there a simple easy way to back up files from my work computer to my server? I would like to provide this backup service to the other people in the building as well, so if there is a simple way to do this that would be great. Also if it matters, some of the other computers use Windows 98 and 2000. I realize bandwidth could be an issue but that's a topic for another post. Thanks

 

[BlueWeasel]

Sure, that's easy. Just setup your system at home as a FTP server and backup the data to that.

 

[friedrice]

I thought about that, and that would work just dandy for me. But in providing this to other people in the building.... I would have to take them to a boot camp for computers. Is there a way to say, select a couple folders, and the data would be backed up in real time? I was reading that Microsoft Server Exchange could do something like that. It's prolly waaaay to expensive, but now I'm just interested and want to find out how to do it and what programs would be needed.

 

[oog]

i've been able to do something like this by installing cygwin and running rsync over ssh. do a search on google for rsync, backup and ssh and you should find a few pointers. add cygwin to see what might be windows-specific. i found that timestamps are preserved quite right with windows files and that cygwin doesn't support files larger than 2gigs through rsync.

you can schedule the job to run periodically, which won't give you the real-time mirroring, but it'll be pretty good.

 

[friedrice]

I found a pretty nice program at http://www.orionsoftlab.com/
This seems to work nicely and I think it'll be what I will use. Plus it's cheap. Thanks all for your help and taking the time to respond.