PC offsite data backup

[sparkplug]

I need to archive two drives each of 75gb on a daily basis.

Ideally the backup needs to be scheduled to run overnight as the data is in constant use over a network during the day.

Even more ideally the data should be removable in some way so it can be taken off site.

What's good out there?

 

[judge]

Even with the ever decreasing prices of these backup services what you're proposing is 1) Expensive and 2) A technically poor implementation fraut with problems in the packet loss world of the Internet.

Surely you only need to do 'diffs', a grandfather, father, son back-up strategy is what you need - even at enterprise level back-up's wouldn't be done of such large sizes over the Internet, over the ether yes but not the Internet

Get the back-up strategy sorted and your data shifts will reduce significantly and conversely the prices tumble

 

[sparkplug]

Sorry - didn't mean to mislead.

I'm not after anything which backs up 'off site'

I'm thinking more along the lines of a couple of removable drives or tape or summat which can be manually and physically removed.

I'm after suggestions for software which could maybe schedule archives and only copy files which have changed. Nothing too sophisticated, but I've never set anything like this up... (retrospect on a Mac 15 years ago is about as close as I got...)

 

[Clive]

Cheap and cheerful? - 3 USB 250GB External drives and Robocopy from the XP resource kit.

 

[Deleted account W]

I use an external 100 gig hard drive that cost about £50 and Ezback-it-up, which is freeware.

Only copies changes over, not the whole drive, I set it to run automatically every evening.

 

[sparkplug]

I use an external 100 gig hard drive that cost about £50 and Ezback-it-up, which is freeware.

Only copies changes over, not the whole drive, I set it to run automatically every evening.

That sounds very much like the puppy - thanks Kev...

 

[judge]

I have a RAID configured hard drive arrangement (2 x 250GB Mirrored) 1 of which is in a hot-swappable drive caddy.

I use Acronis True Image as my back-up software which does a general nightly 'diff' on to a USB external hard drives and client work folders encrypted by TrueCrypt are managed by a dedicated remote backup service where diffs are sent off-site using the paid for version of BT's Digital Vault (as seen on TV ad campaign currently).

Overkill? Nah Overkill would be dual local remote back-ups with each disk being used in rotation and kept off-site or at the very least in a fire proof safe, I save that for my clients

If you're freelancing it all comes down to the expectation your clients have for your custody of their data and how good your professional indemnity is if you get it wrong