Backup software

[b4u]

Hi,

I'm looking for a way of backing up data on a server (Windows 2000 / Windows 2003). It would be great if the software could create a big archive of backup, and place it on another hard disk, or even on a network disk (could be a mapped network drive on other machine). If it could even burn directly into a DVD, would be awesome.

What I need to backup?

Imagine I have personal directories in the server. Example:

d:\userdata\user1
d:\userdata\user2
d:\userdata\user3

Those directories are available to each user, when they logon successfully into the domain server. Today, I could manually create a huge ZIP file, and drag-drop the "d:\userdata" inside, so every data of every user would be backed up. I would put a filename something like "backup_2004-12-29.zip", and move the file to another hard disk (a different physical disk), or I could even burn to a multisession CD/DVD for storage.

That's what I would like a backup software to do ... compress some directory to a file on another disk, or even given the possibility for burn to DVD (as an extra, not a requirement). I would then set it up to run every week or so, and done!

(I also have a MySQL database, but I would dump all data to a file (through a script), so it could be treated as a normal file).


Is there any software available? Could you give me some names of free software or even payable ones? (money is not an issue, but I would like to have a second choice of a free one)


Thank you.

 

[Czar]

secondcopy does that I think

you could also just create a bunch of batch files to do this

 

[harrkev]

Well, you could use a batch file to kick off WinZip. If your directory structure is static, and you just want one quick backup of everything (no incremental backups), this would work. I did this a couple of years ago, and found command-line switches in the WinZip help file.

Have the first WinZip line create an archive from the first directory, and each subsequent line could just add another directory to the archive.