Looking for a simple program that will let me select what to backup (even on network) and write to a harddisk. Nothing fancy but I'd rather use suggestions you may have than just randomly try problems.

The purpose is to backup my computer and the webserver i use for development purposes. I currently use the old fashions "Manual backup and burn DVD". I just want to be able to make a write to disc happen automatically and then I'll manually burn a DVD.

6/12/2006 10:09:28 PM

https://www.foldershare.com/ ?

6/12/2006 10:22:28 PM

Close but I want something that once a week automatically backs up everything in selected folders on that computer or across the network.

Full backups. Nothing super high tech where it checks if the file has been changed or not.

6/12/2006 10:44:17 PM

ntbackup.. part of windows

6/12/2006 11:17:31 PM

Avamar Axion

http://www.avamar.com

6/12/2006 11:45:58 PM

accessories-system tools-backup

perfect for your needs

6/13/2006 12:00:30 AM

i want something like this too but I want it to backup the actual individual folders/files rather than dumping them all in one .bkp or other type of backup file, because I am backing up to an external drive that I want to be able to take with me and transfer data to another pc.

6/13/2006 12:19:56 AM

^ exactly. I guess i should have been more specific as to how i wanted the backups. I don't want a .bak like mcaflo stated. Space isn't an issue so compression is unnecessary.

Avamar Axion is not free. If I was going to pay for something it would be Veritas.

I found one that seems to be pretty good.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/snazzybackup

We'll see.

6/13/2006 7:16:52 AM

Nevermind. Found the perfect tool.

http://www.nasbackup.com

Recommended on sourceforge, and toms hardware. Very cool and well written.

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6/13/2006 7:23:21 AM

Raige, looks interesting ... can you post results once you try it out? I have a similar setup at home and would like a relatively cheap/effortless solution if it exists.

6/13/2006 11:25:16 AM

So far it works fine. You have to share the folder if it's on the network but the program can be located anywhere and as long as it has write permissions it can write to that drive. It's very nice. You can put in login information as if on a windows domain or just to access the folder itself.

It does everything automatically. Very nice program. I highly recommend trying it.

6/13/2006 11:48:14 AM

rsync

ive been using it for a few months now and haven't had any problems with it. both my PC and my Mac will backup my data to a backup computer/simulation server that ive packed full of HDD space

6/13/2006 11:51:54 AM

I use BackupPC (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) on my Linux box at home to backup all my local machines (Mac, PC, Linux box iteself) and various remote shells. BackupPC has a nice web interface if you're into that kinda thing. Linux box is hardware raid 1, and since I'm still paranoid, I have another disk that I rsync-snapshot stuff to just in case the raid set was to fail.

I also use duplicity (incremental, encrypted, network backup http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/) on the same Linux box to offsite backup (dreamhost) things that I couldn't live without should I loose my Linux box (fire, theft) and keep a copy of my GPG key in my safe deposit box.



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6/13/2006 9:08:59 PM

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6/13/2006 9:24:40 PM