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Old 12 June 2008, 09:42 AM
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Can anyone recommend some backup software.


We will be backing up our files over FTP to a pc at a secure location.

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Old 12 June 2008, 12:36 PM
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A bit more info is probably needed. What type of machines (PC, Mac, Unix) do you want to back up, how many are you wanting to back up. Are they workstations or servers? What OS are they running?

I've used EMC Insignia (used to be Dantz) Retrospect for quite a few years to backup a number of Mac (Pre OS X and OS X) and PC workstations (Win98SE and XP) , along with Windows (2000) and Mac (AppleShare IP 6) Servers and it's always worked perfectly for me.

I primarily backed up to a hard drive, but I know it did support backup to FTP server and I did have it configured to do that at one point and it seemed pretty reliable.

They have changed the naming of their product range, so I cannot remember the name of the package that handles workstations and server backup, but their website should provide the info you need.
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Sorry yeah should have given more info.

Basically to back up one windows file server. Just normal doc, adobe, excel files oh and outlook files.
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By Outlook files are you talking about the standard pst files? or are you using Exchange? Backing up PST files are no different than word files but Exchange is another matter.

Have you considered a mix of xcopy and Windows own FTP to push data at night?
You could run it as a scheduled task at say 10pm and all incremental changes will be sent over to the off site server.

Just a thought

p.s. Symantec BackupExec is great at around £300 but I honestly don't think you need it's features.

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