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Hamish

Hamish

Hamish

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Hi guys,
For those of you with simple backup solutions I was wondering what you use for backup. We have around 150Gb of files and DB backups to backup, ideally every day. Currently we use SyncToy which compares the files on an encrypted volume on an external hard drive to the ones on the server (Server 2003). However getting this to run as a scheduled task is a pain and usually fails. Therefore I'm looking for a new solution. Ideally this would be free and monitor the file system to see what files have changed rather than have to scan all the file contents every time as this takes a long time.

Anyone have any idea? (free ideally)

Cheers
 
robocopy script? Suits the free criteria and you can add flags to it so that it only copies new/changed files.

However if this is for a business it'd really be worth a tape drive and backup exec. With a set of dates at least then you'd have a range of snapshots to go back to if needed.
 
Atm i am using BackupExec and it does the job fine however the software itself and the symantec support are a bit of hit and miss. The software is not made for massive transfer rates of around 1TB a second but for something on your scale it should work fine.

You dont want to go using robocopy when you have a database. you need to purge the transaction logs, do minute/ hour backups etc and be able to roll back

With regards to tapes you need to look at what you have atm, tapes are great for off site restore but you need somewhere safe to put them etc. Tapes are also becoming outdated very fast and i suspect they will hardly be around in a few years as more enterprise class businesses are moving to disk storage as it works out much cheaper. SATA storage now is getting larger in size and a lot cheaper, but having a backup system on the same site as your DB and other files is not a good idea.
 
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