Backup to Offsite server - best software

[tfinch2]

I have a Windows 2000 small business server here at work with PDF and other important data files that the office shares. Boss wants to archive our data offsite on an Opteron server that I'm going to build. He wants the server to run Windows XP Professional. My question is what is the best software to set up automatic backups daily to the offsite server that is cost effective and fairly simple to use.

Thanks.

 

[lansalot]

Veritas BackupExec - but more important would be your bandwidth to said site. Not a lot of point if you are stuck sending anything over a gig in a day.

Why not just do what the rest of us do - take the tapes home each night?

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: lansalot
Veritas BackupExec - but more important would be your bandwidth to said site. Not a lot of point if you are stuck sending anything over a gig in a day.

Why not just do what the rest of us do - take the tapes home each night?

Because I'm just a summer hire here and there is nobody here capable of remembering to stick the tape in and do a backup. Boss wants to move away from tape drives and suggested the offsite archive server. We won't be adding more than 100 megs a day at most to the archive server, if that.

 

[Pastore]

Checkout Genie Backup Manager... Much cheaper than Veritas and works just as good or better.

 

[Homerboy]

even the non-critical HandyBackup will do incremental backups over FTP.
Opteron server? to just store backups? Umm I have a old P200 that will suit just fine.

 

[edmicman]

Check out http://www.connected.com/, too

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: Homerboy
even the non-critical HandyBackup will do incremental backups over FTP.
Opteron server? to just store backups? Umm I have a old P200 that will suit just fine.

When the boss is working offsite on the server I don't think he wants to be putting along on a p200...

 

[oog]

i use rsync for just such a purpose, but it's for personal use. just set up a sshd server and you can rsync securely to the remote machine. rsync does a great job of only dealing with diffs.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: oog
i use rsync for just such a purpose, but it's for personal use. just set up a sshd server and you can rsync securely to the remote machine. rsync does a great job of only dealing with diffs.

Yup! Rsync!