Looking for a backup program - suggestions needed

[slicksilver]

Hello all

We need to backup two folders on an hourly basis on a business computer of hours. What is the best way to do this? One of the folders is My Documents and the other is the accounting program's data folder. Its important that the backup program can backup the files even while the accounting program is reading/writing data and ms office is writing/reading files. Is this possible at all?

Thanks!

 

[boochi]

Acronis True Image Home does this. They may have other products that will do it that might be more suited to an office environment.

http://kb.acronis.com/content/23877

edit: Backups have to be local for this to work.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Backing up files while they are in use is dangerous. I would suggest a "cold" backup solution.

 

[stinger608]

Acronis True Image Home does this. They may have other products that will do it that might be more suited to an office environment.

http://kb.acronis.com/content/23877

edit: Backups have to be local for this to work.

Have to agree with Boochi on this one, Acronis is great image software.....And reasonable priced as well.

 

[slicksilver]

Backing up files while they are in use is dangerous. I would suggest a "cold" backup solution.

What's a cold backup? You mean the regular one after the closing of the programs?

 

[abekl]

There is a free program available, PureSync, that will do automatic file and folder syncronization for you. It's a great program.

 

[wty]

Acronis.True.Image.Echo.Enterprise.Server.v9.7.8353

I used this software for many years.
It may backup your files or harddisks even online.
If you have oracle or mssql DB online,backup is also ok.

 

[Diogenes2]

Backing up files while they are in use is dangerous. I would suggest a "cold" backup solution.

Dangerous, in what way ?

In an enterprise environment, you can't just get everyone to stop working while you back-up files ...