Backup for a small office

[pastro]

There are 10 of us that have windows xp laptops and we need an automatic way to do incremental backups during the day. We have used ghost in the past but I'm guessing there is probably something better out there. I'd like to do something easy like a couple of network attached storage drives. Right now everyone has a portable drive, but no one actually uses it often enough.

If you guys have some thoughts on this, let me know.

[martint123]

I use Acronis and like it. Base backup can be an image and incremental updates.
Nothing better than restoring from an image to get back to square one in a hurry.
I setup an incremental backup at 10:00 and 18:00 if the machine isn't on it does one net time it starts up. With Acronis you can double-click a base backup or incremental and it appears as a drive in explorer, nice to get back "last fridays" version of a file.
ISTR there was a free demo recently.

Martin

[acheyne]

http://mozy.com/pro

Works great!

[David]

XP Home or Pro? Pro has the backup utility that can be scheduled for incremental backups thoughout the day. Add a batch file script to copy it off to a central location.

[pastro]

XP Home or Pro? Pro has the backup utility that can be scheduled for incremental backups thoughout the day. Add a batch file script to copy it off to a central location.

About 75% pro. There are a couple of home versions here. Is there a backup utility that will run on a linux box and via samba access the XP boxes on the network?

[Ted the Penguin]

http://mozy.com/pro

Works great!

heh... the company I work for gave me a 2 year subscription to the pro version for x-mas...

[teejay_c]

There's a couple of great options out there depending on what you want to spend and what you want to do.

I use an Infrant readynas NV+ at home. It's a small SOHO RAID appliance that was recently bought out by Netgear. It's got a terrabyte (expandable) of space using a derivative of raid5. It has a lot of other functions such as print server and web access.

Micro$oft has a pretty compelling solution being sold by HP
http://h71036.www7.hp.com/hho/cache/4473...5-121.html

This has a lot of automated solutions for M$ OSs and applications and does back ups based on file replication. I haven't used this but I've heard it's pretty handy for those of us geeks who do a lot of up keep for overindulgent families...

[bdgbill]

Another vote for Acronis. Been using it for 6 months or so - love it.