Off-site Backup Solution for Server 2012 R2 Essentials

[Savan_P]

OcUK,

We currently are running Server 2012 R2 Essentials. Nothing too fancy, just a load of shares, network drives and users.

Currently the backup solution for the core 11GB of data is:

1. Incremental backup to a Google Drive folder. This then updates the files to Google Drive cloud servers. Works pretty well, however the Drive application has a tendancy to collapse and a user has to be logged into the server, so when the server restarts after updates we need to remember to log back in.
2. Manual backup to external hard drive. All the 11GB data is copied onto a portable hard drive every evening before I leave. I then take the hard drive home with me.
3. At 10pm each day the server copies all 11GB into a dated folder on another internal hard drive. This means that we can go back to specific days to get files that may be overwritten. Iperius backup carries this out, however again a user needs to be logged into the server.

Anything to make the process above both safer and easier/faster would be appreciated!

Sav

 

[Savan_P]

Right ok. The main issue currently is this off-site backup.

It is quite time-consuming having to copy and paste the data manually. If we could plug the HD into the server at some point in the day, then it did a copy at say 6pm automatically, that would be perfect.