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What is the best, inexpensive backup software?

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What do you think is the best, fastest, reliable, inexpensive backup software to use for daily incremental back ups across a home network?

I have 2 desktop PCs plus a notebook that I am backing up across a 100 mpbs network to a server PC with a 500 GB drive.

I have been using Acronis True Image Home to:
1. do a full backup across the network
2. do a daily scheduled incremental backup.

The problems I see with Acronis are that:
1. The daily incremental backups are huge.
On a system with a 200 GB hard drive and minimal daily usage (web, email, quicken etc.), I am seeing daily incremental sizes of 10 - 20 GB. I don't know why it is so large. I turned off auto Diskkeeper defrag because the incremental daily backups were 80 GB with that on because Acronis is image based. If you defrag it thinks everything has changed.

2. I have read of many problem with Acronis True Image advanced features like Secure Zone and the Acronis 2009 that made systems unbootable. This makes me nervous since a backup / restore system needs to be super reliable.

What do you use?
 
why do you think the incrementals are that big??

I've been thinking about trying this out but now i'm not sure.
 
You might check to see if there's a compression setting that'll reduce the backup sizes.


Big picture: consider getting a gigabit switch, too.
 
I have it set at "normal" compression. The online help suggests that "high" compression takes much longer and only save about 5% in backup file size.

I have been pricing gigbit switches and thinking about it, but the daily incrementals run at 5 AM and I don't really care how long they take. The periodic "full" backups take about 3 hours and run in the background.

Originally posted by: mechBgon
You might check to see if there's a compression setting that'll reduce the backup sizes.


Big picture: consider getting a gigabit switch, too.
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I don't know why they are so big.
It may be related to Acronis being image based and doing sector by sector comparisons rather than looking at the file time stamps and comparing with the last back up.

Originally posted by: Chiefcrowe
why do you think the incrementals are that big??

I've been thinking about trying this out but now i'm not sure.
Click to expand...

 
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