Dan,
I am a dealer for NovaStor, http://www.novastor.com/ and have
installed the Nova Backup Professional at several small
businesses/organizations. They have versions for the Server too.
My solution is to back up to a removable SATA Hard Drive because
they are very universal in the sense that any computer can read them
without special drivers and can be rotated offsite or in a safe
place. Media such as tapes can be unreliable and if the drive
becomes obsolete the media is worthless in the event of a problem.
I create 3 folders on the backup drive, such as DailyBackup1,
DailyBackup2, and DisasterRecovery. On M,W,F I do a data backup
including System State in one folder and T,TH,SA in the other folder
and on SU do a disaster recovery (image based backup). That way if
the files are overwriting and there is a problem, I can go back to
the other folder. In the event that disaster recovery needs done,
you boot up with a cd and restore the whole drive to a new hard
drive and then restore the most recent data.
The only problem that I have had is backing up an image from an IDE
drive and then restoring to a SATA drive or vise versa. The drives
must boot differently.
The support at NovaStor is also timely and valuable should you have
questions or problems. It is included with using their
software. I highly recommend. You also have the option of backing
up online with this software.
Hope this helps.
Scott Stanfield
Stanfield Technologies LLC
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Goldberg
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:32 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - OT: backup software
I am looking for a good backup software to run on a server.
I know there is some like Symantec(VERITAS) backup but they are expensive.
TIA
Dan Goldberg
