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Backup software

  • 27-10-2006 3:25pm
    #1
    leef23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 449 ✭✭


    does anyone know of any good software for backing up a server to and external harddrive. so i could do a backup every week or so and it won't copy everything again just files that have been changed or new files.


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  • #2
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    MSBACKUP, Norton Ghost, et al.
    What size disks?
    What OS?
    And so on and so forth...


  • #3
    leef23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 449 ✭✭leef23


    thanx i'll check them out.
    i'd be backing up about 40gb onto a 250gb external harddrive.


  • #4
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I take it you didn't get any backup software with the external hard drive, just most of them I have come across have something bundled with it. Anyway I use the Backup tool in System Tools in Windows XP.


  • #5
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Robocopy from the Windows Server Resource Kit

    I find it very handy for this kind of backup. Just write a batch script to perform the backup with the relevant switches. /MIR mirrors an entire directory tree - it both copies new/changed files and removes deleted files from the target. You can then use the built in Windows task scheduler to have it run once a day/week/month.


  • #6
    aFlabbyPanda
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    ntbackup has always worked for me.


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  • #7
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Have you looked at the backup tool built into XP?

    Start it and there is a piece of text that says advanced mode. Click it and you get proper options. Don't know anything about it as I've never used it but it might be worth a go.


  • #8
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    leef23 wrote:
    does anyone know of any good software for backing up a server to and external harddrive. so i could do a backup every week or so and it won't copy everything again just files that have been changed or new files.
    Incremental backups are generally headache-city as you might have to work your way through half-a-dozen backup sets to get back an original file.

    Keep it simple, back up everything afresh using NTBACKUP. Storage is cheap these days.


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