Off-Site Back Up solution, not through a *.com

[coolVariable]

Originally posted by: Knavish

Originally posted by: coolVariable

Would be glad to hear other alternatives from you. So far these two seem to be the best.

Sorry i was shooting down ideas and not giving my own. Here's one:

Suppose you only needed to back up your computers to a server *in* the office. If this was the case, WHS would do this easily, right?

The Problem With This: I imagine that the office computers are running on a local network, sharing a cable modem. This means that a WHS box sitting *out* of the office wouldn't be on the local office network.

The Solution: Can't you just make the remote WHS box appear to be on the local office network by using a VPN? You could put a ~$100 router in the office that supports VPN, have the WHS "dial in" to the VPN & do it's normal backup procedure every night.

The first time you backup those 4 desktop systems, you'll want the server to be in the office because the desktops will be copying their entire HD's over to the server. Future backups will just copy over changed blocks of the filesystem, so they will take much less bandwidth.

Personally, I'm a fan of open source & would probably set up some low powered linux based server with something like rsynch or unison or backula. If you don't have much experience with (or care to spend time playing with) open source solutions, the WHS route is probably the way to go.

Please read the thread before posting.
Thank you.

 

[Knavish]

Originally posted by: coolVariable

Originally posted by: Knavish

Originally posted by: coolVariable

Would be glad to hear other alternatives from you. So far these two seem to be the best.

Sorry i was shooting down ideas and not giving my own. Here's one:

Suppose you only needed to back up your computers to a server *in* the office. If this was the case, WHS would do this easily, right?

The Problem With This: I imagine that the office computers are running on a local network, sharing a cable modem. This means that a WHS box sitting *out* of the office wouldn't be on the local office network.

The Solution: Can't you just make the remote WHS box appear to be on the local office network by using a VPN? You could put a ~$100 router in the office that supports VPN, have the WHS "dial in" to the VPN & do it's normal backup procedure every night.

The first time you backup those 4 desktop systems, you'll want the server to be in the office because the desktops will be copying their entire HD's over to the server. Future backups will just copy over changed blocks of the filesystem, so they will take much less bandwidth.

Personally, I'm a fan of open source & would probably set up some low powered linux based server with something like rsynch or unison or backula. If you don't have much experience with (or care to spend time playing with) open source solutions, the WHS route is probably the way to go.

Please read the thread before posting.
Thank you.

And your point is?
thank you as well.

 

[coolVariable]

Originally posted by: Knavish
And your point is?
thank you as well.

That you obviously did not read the last 15+ posts which were about offsite backup of his onsite server/backup.

Troll.