de best backup software for the money?

[kermalou]

i want something that will backup my office server everyday and make a new zip for everyday, anything like that?

space is not an issue.

 

[KoolDrew]

What about some type of imaging software like Acronis True Image?

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
What about some type of imaging software like Acronis True Image?

i agree, if space is not an issue, make a complete drive image every day.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: kermalou
i want something that will backup my office server everyday and make a new zip for everyday, anything like that?

space is not an issue.

An external hard drive that is USB based would work. I think Maxtor drives even come with backup software to automate the process.

Ghost is the most popular software solution. It will make an image and do incremental backups on another PC on the same netwrok. Requires 2 PCs to do it that way. Anyways, read about ghost if you want a low cost solution. You should be able to backup to DVD-R with it among other things.

 

[kermalou]

but i dont want to back everything up, just selected files.

i just want a zip file of every stuff, thanks for the other ideas.

 

[MustISO]

http://www.dantz.com/en/products/win_business/index.dtml
http://www.veritas.com/us/products/backupexec/

 

[Relayer]

secondcopy

Microsoft has a new sync powertoy also. That is free.

also, I saw this on Novell's site as a "cool tool" http://www.backup4all.com/

 

[abc]

Originally posted by: MustISO
http://www.dantz.com/en/products/win_business/index.dtml
http://www.veritas.com/us/products/backupexec/

which one you like more, veritas or retrospect.

 

[Todd33]

sync toy is great for groups of files.

 

[abc]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
What about some type of imaging software like Acronis True Image?

acronis 'now' doesn't just make a image like ghost, but is a file based backup software as well. you can do both. i just 'dl' a copy tonight.

 

[kmmatney]

If you just want to back up selected files, then then try Cobian Backup. Its free, and very nice, and will puts the items you want into a zip file.

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

Its a very nice program, and you can schedule backup times, or do them manually.

 

[Mutilator]

I've read that you don't want to make an entire image of your drive... I just wanted to let you guys know that Ghost won't work for Servers. He'd have to step up to LiveState for Server OS machines... but it is an excellent program from what I've seen of it over the last few months. Much better than Dantz Retrospect or the built in Windows Backup program.

 

[Czar]

ntbackup... its free.. and universal among windows computers

 

[Kelemvor]

The one they give to people here at work is NTI Backup. Not sure on the cost but it does incrementals, fulls, etc for backing up.

http://www.ntius.com/default.asp?p=backupnow/bun_main

Looks like it's only $60 or so for the downloadable install

 

[imported_DarkPenguin]

NTI Backup. Other than ghost it is the only one that has actually worked when I was desperate.

(Unlike novastor. Novastor app errored on the first recovery file and truncated it from 500mb to about 30kb. Poof. Entire backup gone. Gigs of useless files cause the first one was destroyed.)