Freeware Backup Utility needed.

Wiggins

Wiggins

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I am currently sorting out the networking and software for a small company which is Charity run hence why money is tight.

I am looking for a good freeware backup utility that I can install on several machines that will automatically backup folders to a network drive.

Something that will scan the folders and only back up what docs have been saved at the end of every day.

Any ideas would be a treat. :)
 
bledd. said:
robocopy /e C:\source\ d:\destination\

it's made by ms, and it's a pain to find the exe on their site, so here you go

http://bleddyn.co.uk/help/1files/ROBOCOPY.EXE

-it's already a part of vista btw, just drop that in the windows\system32 folder
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A great idea but it needs to be a third party app that the users themselves can control in case of any hiccups. :(

I was going to use Norton Ghost but the licence is only for 1 pc and there are 8.

Edit: I may actually use the one built into XP but not entirely sure how trusted it can be.
 
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synctoy then :)


what you could do is make a log file at the end, and turn the cmd window 'green' if it's all worked, if it can't find the destination, then turn red, with error..

let me know if you want to do this, won't take long to whack together a bat file for it :)
 
Another vote for Syncback, an excellent little bit of free software. I used to use SyncToy - but it left rogue empty folders on the backup volume.
 
Well I gave Syncback a bash this afternoon and I have to say, it works very well.

Finance will stop beating me with verbal about backup now.

Cheers guys. :)
 
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