Backup help!

[h90]

Situation: Small office, with 15 Computer and a workshop. Most connected with 1 GB LAN, some old one with 100 Mbit

Tons of small documents, but from the size max. a few hundred MB.

The company accounting:

The documents are all on one Computer and the user use the from there. Most are 1 page word or excel files....All small things.

The accounting files, which can be used on the main computer and one more computer. It can't be copied direct from the running computer because always a database is running.

3 workshop computer have work related files...

My computer has a large directory of files. (a few hundred MB)

Till now once per week I connected an usb harddisk and make a backup...and often I forget so we often have one backup per month...

What I did:

1 ) I bought a second HD for the most important computer and set it in Win7 as Raid1. That improves safety, but isn't 100 %

2 ) I bought a D-Link DNS-320L NAS with 2 Harddisks in Raid1

3 ) Thunderbird email folder (thunderbird must be closed)

So now I would need a software that can automatically log in with username and password and copy the compressed files to the NAS.

Any recommendations? Trueimage? I would prefer something smaller more basic and just zip file.

But that won't solve the problem of the accounting software. Till now I just loaded trueimage from USB stick and made a backup (never tested if an installed version of trueimage could do it).

Any ideas on that?

And say a lighting strikes the house electric than the backup is also dead, or? Or is there a solution for that?

Or any complete different idea?

[innerspace]

Logmein backup is one option. Scheduled and automated but not free. Simple to use and can control from anywhere. It relies on your own storage that you already have.

Plenty of cloud based ones on subscription too which save it all online. Helps incase of theft or fire etc.

Other free or diy options but typically more fiddly to setup and manage.

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[alfalfa19]

I use a program called syncback, by 2brightsparks. It's free, and you can select specific files or folders. Requires a little bit of setting up.

[h90]

Thanks, I'll look into both softwares.

Cloud is not option for company data, and if it would, not with the unstable internet here (way too slow sometimes)

[taotoo]

Whatever you do you need one part of your solution to be off-site. Easiest way by far is going to be cloud. Otherwise a fire/burglary etc. could result in everything being lost.

[innerspace]

You say cloud is not an option for company data, I presume meaning security wise.

If so rethink, the myths of cloud being unsecure are being dispelled. Industry standard encyrption is in use from transport to storage in most cases and much more secure than a harddrive connected to you office network and sitting on a desk.

Unless your company deals in nuclear launch codes then the cloud is secure enough.

And as the last poster said, keep at least a part of your plan offsite. Cloud is much easier for that than rotating multiple hard drives between locations regularly. Especially since harddrives can die in transport.

Slow internet doesnt help, in that case look for incremental backups so only the first backup is large and slow.

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[Bpuumike]

Or an external hard drive (Western Digital etc) which you can take home everyday in case of an office fire or similar.

[h90]

You say cloud is not an option for company data, I presume meaning security wise.

If so rethink, the myths of cloud being unsecure are being dispelled. Industry standard encyrption is in use from transport to storage in most cases and much more secure than a harddrive connected to you office network and sitting on a desk.

Unless your company deals in nuclear launch codes then the cloud is secure enough.

And as the last poster said, keep at least a part of your plan offsite. Cloud is much easier for that than rotating multiple hard drives between locations regularly. Especially since harddrives can die in transport.

Slow internet doesnt help, in that case look for incremental backups so only the first backup is large and slow.

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Have you been sleeping the last year?

It is more or less proofed that the NSA can access all these data. While I doubt that they are interested in the stock, purchase and selling price of hydraulic seals of a small company it is a matter of principle to don't give them the data.

There were just a few articles that cloud storage get very unpopular for European companies and the plan to keep everything themself again.

But of course the safety thing is more than true. A very good point for cloud. We have an old dedicated webserver running in Europe, actually we could use it, if FTP connection keeps stable.

We only do full backups, as I had once problems with incremental backups, but that is 15+ years ago.....maybe I can give it a try again.

[h90]

Or an external hard drive (Western Digital etc) which you can take home everyday in case of an office fire or similar.

Currently I use an External HD. I thought maybe let it make an automatic backup every week, and copy the last one on external every end of the month.

[h90]

I use a program called syncback, by 2brightsparks. It's free, and you can select specific files or folders. Requires a little bit of setting up.

syncback is the best backup software I ever saw....so flexible....I am amazed.....