Backup software

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I'm after some backup software and am wondering if anyone has any recommendations. My situation as follows:

- 2 PC's, both running windows 7
- 1 NAS box (Synology DS214se)

I'd like to make regular backups of certain folders on the 2 PC's onto the NAS box at regular intervals. The NAS box is on 24/7 but the 2 pc's aren't. One of the PC's is only used once a week or so for a couple of hours at a time.

Ideally I'd like something that runs on the NAS box rather than the two PC's, and goes and grabs the files/folders off the PC's when it notices they're connected, but I'm not sure if this is possible.

I'd also like it to be smart and unobtrusive so that it only backs up files that have changed and does so in the background without throwing up popups asking me if I want to do XYZ everything 5 minutes.

Free software is preferred, but will consider paying for it if it's worth it.

Thanks for any advice.
 
Macrium Reflect is free and can run on both PCs and backup changed files. You can also tell it to shutdown the PC after a backup task has finished.
 
Allway syc but it runs on the PC but will do everything you wanted. I think with crash plan you can do what you wanted and that will run on a NAS
 
robocopy /E "C:\source folder" "\\nas\destination folder" /R:2 /W:2


That would copy all new files and updated files to the destination. If it fails, it will retry twice and wait 2 seconds between each retry. (it won't fail)

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robocopy /MIR "C:\source folder" "\\nas\destination folder" /R:2 /W:2

That would copy and new files and changes, also will delete files that don't exist anymore. With the same retry behaviour as above.


Put one of them into notepad, save it as 'backup files.bat' (not .bat.txt), then either double click it when you want a backup created or schedule it as a task.
 
bledd. said:
robocopy /E "C:\source folder" "\\nas\destination folder" /R:2 /W:2


That would copy all new files and updated files to the destination. If it fails, it will retry twice and wait 2 seconds between each retry. (it won't fail)

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robocopy /MIR "C:\source folder" "\\nas\destination folder" /R:2 /W:2

That would copy and new files and changes, also will delete files that don't exist anymore. With the same retry behaviour as above.


Put one of them into notepad, save it as 'backup files.bat' (not .bat.txt), then either double click it when you want a backup created or schedule it as a task.
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The /XJD option is also useful - it tells robocopy to ignore junction points (symlinks). I have had Robocopy get all in a tizz over circular junction points in the Documents folders.
 
My main PC runs linux and I use Rsync to backup the files/folders to an external usb drive, it works really well and will only backup the files that have changed etc. I wanted to do the same with an old Windows XP laptop and found that there is a windows installation for Rsync (cwRsync)

http://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/windows_rsync.html

You essentially create a batch file, you could set it as a windows scheduled task/startup folder or run it manually when you think on, work really well.
 
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