Backup s/w requirements

[boardtc]

There was no response to this in the shareware group, so I will try
here!

A recent burgulary has me wanting to change my backups setup. I am
looking for software that will do the following :

(1) backup a set of folder locations & some specific files in folders
to an external drive, only files that have been update since last
backup
(2) schedule automatic backups, warning on system activation if last
backup scheduled was missed as system was not active.
(3) as part of 2 automatically ftp the same files in (1) to a given ftp
site
(4) as part of 2 automatically email a cores set of files to a given
address
(5) have 2 licences so we can use it on 2 machines at home

Does anyone have experience with some software that does all this?

Appreciate any opinion.

Thanks, Tom.

 

[Thomas Lauer]

A recent burgulary has me wanting to change my backups setup. I am
looking for software that will do the following :
[snip]

Appreciate any opinion.

Take a look at Syncback, freeware (or the SE version, payware). Should,
perhaps with some tweaking and a batch job or two, do most of what you
want.

http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/

 

[Ben]

looking for software that will do the following :

(1) backup a set of folder locations & some specific files in folders
to an external drive, only files that have been update since last
backup
(2) schedule automatic backups, warning on system activation if last
backup scheduled was missed as system was not active.
(3) as part of 2 automatically ftp the same files in (1) to a given ftp
site
(4) as part of 2 automatically email a cores set of files to a given
address
(5) have 2 licences so we can use it on 2 machines at home

I believe Cobian Backup is able to directly do all of the above, apart
from (4) - however, it supports executing other tasks after a backup is
completed, so if you were to add something like Blat (commandline
mailer) into the mix you could easily create a batch file to zip up and
send your core files after the main backup completes.

I should note that although I am currently using Cobian Backup myself, I
am not using it for multiple tasks (e.g disk backup and FTP backup at
the same time) so your mileage may vary - I'd be tempted to do an
uncompressed disk backup followed by a separate compressed FTP backup
myself.

Definitely well worth a look.

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

HTH

Ben

 

[Livewire]

I believe Cobian Backup is able to directly do all of the above, apart
from (4) - however, it supports executing other tasks after a backup is
completed, so if you were to add something like Blat (commandline
mailer) into the mix you could easily create a batch file to zip up and
send your core files after the main backup completes.

I should note that although I am currently using Cobian Backup myself, I
am not using it for multiple tasks (e.g disk backup and FTP backup at
the same time) so your mileage may vary - I'd be tempted to do an
uncompressed disk backup followed by a separate compressed FTP backup
myself.

Definitely well worth a look.

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

HTH

Ben

Seconded. Cobian is an excellent and very versatile program that does
industrial-strength backups remarkably well.

 

[boardtc]

Sounds ideal. I already have experience using http://www.blat.net at
work so setting up fine...i use 7-zip so I'm sure there's comand line
option to create a zip for blat.

Great response, what I was looking for, will road test it when I get
the new machine soon.

Thanks for posting, Tom.

 

[Adam Piggott]

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Sounds ideal. I already have experience using http://www.blat.net at
work so setting up fine...i use 7-zip so I'm sure there's comand line
option to create a zip for blat.

Great response, what I was looking for, will road test it when I get
the new machine soon.

Thanks for posting, Tom.

If you don't get any luck I can offer a (non-freeware) backup program
depending on your OS - let me know by email if this is the case.

Adam Piggott,
Proprietor,
Proactive Services (Computing)
http://www.proactiveservices.co.uk/
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