Network Backup Server

[Deezus]

Hello there,

Not quite the way I like to intoduce myself to a new forum, but I really need help on this and my normal forum is closed for maintenance... for a week now. Anyway.

I have been asked by my employer to make a back up server on our network.
My plan involves 2 removable USB drives that will house the network back ups and 1 can be removed at night and taken home.

There are 7 PCs on this network and each has about.. 10-15 gigs of info to backup. So the software should be able to check the changed files each time and only change the ones that have been altered.

Ideally it should also sort out each backed up computer into it's own folder on the removable drive.

So the "plan" is, The backups take place at about 10pm, saving to one of the removable drives. Then the next day it runs again at about 10 am and the drive that gets removed, backs up the 1st removable drive. If that makes sense..

I'm open for opinions and help on this as the software I've tried didn't fill my needs. I think this post probly coulda been placed somewhere else, if that's the case I will repost it.

Thanks,

-Deez-

 

[Relayer]

SecondCopy would work for what you want to do.

 

[Deezus]

I'll check into that,

Thanks

-Deez-

 

[MulLa]

Any commercial backup software should do what you need. Veritas, Arcserve. My preference is for Veritas but might be a bit pricy.

You might consider using tapes rather than HDDs for archiving purposes. Then again for the amount of data that you require to backup tapes could work out quite expensive.

 

[Deezus]

Thanks for the recommendation. I'm trying that second copy out and it seems to work nice.

Also about the tape back-ups. We are using 2) 120 gig USB hard drives and that seems to work well also.
Thanks though

-Deez-

 

[Diaonic]

I also use Veritas Backup Exec, it is quite pricey but you get what you pay for.

 

[Cable God]

Backup Exec is old school. Check out Symantec (used to be powerquest) V2i Protector. Images servers and workstations to disk over the LAN while still being 100% available. In effect, it's a hot image backup of LIVE data.