I would like to start doing backups of my home server to spare hard drives since 2TB hard drives are so cheap. My plan would be to temp install the 2TB backup drive in my PC, back-up files on the home server, then remove the hard drive. I've even been tossing around taking the hard drives to a safety deposit box due to all the pictures, home movies and work I would like to keep in the event of a fire.
What I would like it to do is back-up all files without changing or compressing them so if needed they could be read by a file system and also have the program keep track of what files are on a specific disk. When a successive backup is made, I'd insert a new hard drive (if previous one was full), want the program to only copy files that have changed since the last backup and then log the copied files with the disk name/number.
Does a software exist that would do this? Any suggestions about an alternate backup strategy? I looked into using tape a bit but it seemed very expensive to start using and I have several TB of stuff which I need to have backed up.
Thanks!
What I would like it to do is back-up all files without changing or compressing them so if needed they could be read by a file system and also have the program keep track of what files are on a specific disk. When a successive backup is made, I'd insert a new hard drive (if previous one was full), want the program to only copy files that have changed since the last backup and then log the copied files with the disk name/number.
Does a software exist that would do this? Any suggestions about an alternate backup strategy? I looked into using tape a bit but it seemed very expensive to start using and I have several TB of stuff which I need to have backed up.
Thanks!
