Good Backup Software!!????

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Hi

I have a domain controller that I would like to backup all staff files from.
I have a drobo pro that is networked on another computer and wish to backup to it.

I would like to have a daily incremental backup and a weekly/monthly.

Looking for a nice bit of software to do this that does not cost the earth and has a nice quick and easy restore feature.

Anyone got any good ideas? The servers are win2k8r2 so sadly no ntbackup as that used to do the trick :)

cheers in advance.
 
Saundie said:
What are you backing up to? Tape, presumably?
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What he said :)

We use CA ARCserve backup for our internal backups. Does the job and is fairly cheap. <£400 for a new purchase inc. 1 year support and upgrades.

We used to use it for tape backup before moving a few things to the cloud. Does the whole daily,weekly,monthly backups to tape no problem.

Now it's for backing up data folders on 10> networked servers + exchange (extra cost) + local disks to an external firewire hard drive.
 
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What about the build in, Windows Server Backup? I think it's brilliant and free with windows 2k8, I'm backing up to various external HDD on a daily rotation.

Only overwrites the data when the disk is full, so you can get lots of backups on one disk (size of data/hdd dependent) I can restore the whole server onto new hardware from bare metal in under an 3hours and be up and running again (220GB of data) The backup for 220GB of data takes spot on 2hours at the moment, and that's not even using USB 3.0.

So much quicker than tape to find files to restore and cheaper when you start looking at the price of DLT drives and the like.
 
Hehe forgot to mention I m running the dc on hyper-v which is a pita with removable media.

If there is a way around this then that would be great.

Or if there is an easy way to get rid of hyper-v via imaging and reinstalling but i wonder if its worth it with a dc? I m a bit wary of that. Would a backup with the built in software allow me to just reinstall on the server minus the hyper and carry on as normal? or would there be some nasty side effects?

Yeah the os that the drobo pro is connected to would be how i backup ie a shared folder etc.
 
I wonder if i could connect the Drobo to the dc on the VM i havent tried that yet:) i guess that could technically work for the built in backup system.

hmmmm might have to check that out.
 
GiB said:
I wonder if i could connect the Drobo to the dc on the VM i havent tried that yet:) i guess that could technically work for the built in backup system.

hmmmm might have to check that out.
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Although i've not tested it myself i belive it is possible to connect a VM to an iSCSI target using the MS iSCSI initiator
 
Like the idea of that software tbh, couple of questions, I assume that it takes images of the server for recover, but can I drill into the backups to recover say files and folders on their own, say if someone deletes their userarea? Can I go back to a certain date and just pull up files for that particular user, Could I backup specific files from my DC incrementally? Sorry to be a pain:)

Part of me wonders if having the drobo on the Hyper-v is the right way to do it? My Hyper-v is not joined to the domain, would this make things any better? is there any point? esp as the DC is a VM that sits on it.

Are there any correct ways to do this? IE is it any better for the drobo to be on the domain as opposed to not on it. Will it effect backups in any way?

Cheers
 
RichIbizaSport said:
What he said :)

We use CA ARCserve backup for our internal backups. Does the job and is fairly cheap. <£400 for a new purchase inc. 1 year support and upgrades.

We used to use it for tape backup before moving a few things to the cloud. Does the whole daily,weekly,monthly backups to tape no problem.

Now it's for backing up data folders on 10> networked servers + exchange (extra cost) + local disks to an external firewire hard drive.
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have you noticed it gives no read/write soft errors after doing backup?

so far ive never seen arc serve fail a backup, even on a drive i know will create hard errors.
 
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