[Nottingham] Backups: How do you do yours?

[john.whitehead at romo.com]

Hi,

We use rsnapshot which is an excellent wrapper around rsync which handles 
daily / weekly rotations.

 http://www.rsnapshot.org/ 

We junked Arcserve a long time ago and now use this for multiple Windows & 
Linux boxes.

Cheers,

John

> Hello all
> 
> I've been asked to look at backing up one Windows machines to another 
but
> due to financial constraints with my employer we're not going to be 
getting
> any new software to help out. We were previously using Symantec Backup 
Exec
> but it seems it cannot handle large volumes such as the amounts we need 
to
> backup (~1.5 terabytes.) Trying to do so has resulted in very hit and 
miss
> integrity of backups with about 1 in 3 files being corrupt and therefore
> unusable.

> 
> Any suggestions gladly received.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Simon

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