I needed to find some decent backup utilities for the office. We wanted to have a program that would perform a daily backup and FTP the files off site. The other necessecity is to be able to backup and restore the entire machine quickly.
Found two good products, Cobian Backup and Self Image. Both products are open source.
Cobian backup met the criteria for backing up the files on a regular basis. It is able to perform diff backups, compress the output, and send the results to a remote FTP location. It will even deletes older backups on the remote site so you don’t run out of disk space. Unfortunately a recent post by the developer on the Cobian site says that he will abandon his software if someone doesn’t take over the project lead.
Self Image is imaging software that is able to make a disk image of a running Windows machine. The idea here is if the hard drive fails in one of the machines this will enable us to get the machine up and running with a minimum of fuss. Finally if the machine has failed it needs a host system to restore the image. Self Image is now included on the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows.
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