Windows Server 2012 R2 Offsite backup through VPN?

ShivP

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Hi all

At my dads workplace we are running server 2012 R2 and my dad every evening copy and pastes the "clients" folder which houses the most important data to an external HDD and brings it home every evening as a backup

It's a pain in the arse solution and I want to make it a bit more automated. It currently backs up to google drive (which keeps crashing) and another HDD in the server also but we like to have 3 copies at least

When working from home he VPNs into the Asus DSL AC52U router at the office and just works through that. Not large files just excel spreadsheets etc but they take ages to copy to the external drive as I think it is because they are all small files and there are hundreds of them

Is there any way if I left a PC on at home I could automatically run a backup every day through the VPN at a set time every day and get rid of this external HDD solution? Perhaps a robocopy through a networked drive over the VPN? It is using OpenVPN through the asus router
 
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Whilst your suggestion of a robocopy via mapped drive would work, as you probably know it's not ideal. Given that it sounds like you have no or little budget, I think I would do the following:

USB3.1 HDD in a caddy
2 HDD
Script copy to run over night to 1 HDD
Rinse and repeat every day/week or however often you see fit. This is essentially your offsite backup and you will be able to use it to go back to the previous day if needs be.

I'd then setup shadow copy on the drive hosting the live files and set to keep a couple of days worth of roll backs.

This means you have an immediate and easy, low maintenance solution of recovering files onsite if needs be, and an offsite backup that is at the very least 24 hours old.

If there is a higher budget, then great, get a cloud hosted backup or server and back that up to another DC.

We use a mixture of VEEAM, Attix5 and Zerto but we are a large company.

You could also look at hosting another 2012R2 server (Virtual or physical) and create a replicated DFS over VPN.
 
Syncovery software to copy the client files to a Dropbox folder on the server. Install Dropbox on home pc and they will automatically download.
 
Question re duplicati
Is it possible to get the files to just upload in normal excel files etc not these funny .dblock .zip files?
 
This is exactly what CrashPlan is good at. And it won't cost you a penny.
 
Nothing to do with Google Drive. You install CrashPlan at the office and on the PC at home, use the same account when you register them both, and then you can backup the work computer to the home computer. All versioned, all encrypted, all compressed and de-duplicated.
 
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