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Michael Byrne

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I have a client running a very small office (2 computers) and was looking for an automated backup solution for a few folders on them.

I have a spare pc to use and was wondering if someone could recommend an open source (or even windows) backup solution to put on it

Any help would be great!
 
While not a direct answer to the OPs question, I strongly recommend some system that supports daily notification/status of the backup jobs, that you monitor on a daily basis, and charge a fee for that that makes it worth your time. And, well, you're in this business to be a business and make money. Recurring revenue is a nice thing!

Setting up some system and assuming it's "set and forget"...not a good idea with backups. Leaving it to the end user to manage...well, human error kicks in. Seen too many situations where the client was supposed to do it..and something happens, we go in to restore..and..backup hasn't run since November 23rd 2009 or something like that.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
While not a direct answer to the OPs question, I strongly recommend some system that supports daily notification/status of the backup jobs, that you monitor on a daily basis, and charge a fee for that that makes it worth your time. And, well, you're in this business to be a business and make money. Recurring revenue is a nice thing!

Setting up some system and assuming it's "set and forget"...not a good idea with backups. Leaving it to the end user to manage...well, human error kicks in. Seen too many situations where the client was supposed to do it..and something happens, we go in to restore..and..backup hasn't run since November 23rd 2009 or something like that.
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Yep, got a client just because their NAS failed and the owner had been doing backups, but one day got busy and skipped a backup and never did one again, turns out the backup was a year old. Luckily we were able to recover the data. Now we manage their backups with Solarwinds Backup.
 
Got called in to help with data restore for a dental office. They had not been my client, but had had a crash. They were having trouble restoring the data from their USB flash drive. The office manager had been religiously putting the flash drive in the system every day as instructed. But she did not issue any commands or see any activity, but none the less did it every day. Best I could tell nothing ever happened - put a blank disk in and the blank disk out. Ugh.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
While not a direct answer to the OPs question, I strongly recommend some system that supports daily notification/status of the backup jobs, that you monitor on a daily basis, and charge a fee for that that makes it worth your time. And, well, you're in this business to be a business and make money. Recurring revenue is a nice thing!

Setting up some system and assuming it's "set and forget"...not a good idea with backups. Leaving it to the end user to manage...well, human error kicks in. Seen too many situations where the client was supposed to do it..and something happens, we go in to restore..and..backup hasn't run since November 23rd 2009 or something like that.
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Any free software that does the backups automatically and with notifications??
 
Michael Byrne said:
Any free software that does the backups automatically and with notifications??
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Free is not what you want when it comes to backups. Especially for business clients. With free you typically don't get support and it's basically a best effort type of product. For our customers if they want us to provide backup they need a business class solution, not some cobbled together mess. There are dirt cheap cloud backup options out there like I mentioned above or you could use the builtin Windows backup and point it to a share located on the backup computer, but no reports with that. At least not good reports like you get with a good backup solution.
 
Slaters Kustum Machines said:
Free is not what you want when it comes to backups. Especially for business clients. With free you typically don't get support and it's basically a best effort type of product. For our customers if they want us to provide backup they need a business class solution, not some cobbled together mess. There are dirt cheap cloud backup options out there like I mentioned above or you could use the builtin Windows backup and point it to a share located on the backup computer, but no reports with that. At least not good reports like you get with a good backup solution.
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I'm leaning towards Backblaze
 
https://www.techradar.com/reviews/easeus-todo-backup-free

http://www.backupreview.com/fbackup/


(Not sure of the licensing legalize as pertains to business use, read it beforehand, of course...; or have business in question purchase license, or, better yet,...sell it to them.)

Of course, any storage that is attached/stays attached is also vulnerable to ransomware....

If it is just a handful of files, even a periodic backup of important files to a cloud destination, a USB flash drive, or a quickly attached external USB drive can be a potential lifesaver...
 
URBackup.

Absolutely wonderful and it's free. Have had it running solidly for about 2 years now and it never skips a beat. The restores work every time! The options are vast.

It's a full tool which you can build on Linux with web-based access. You can backup over the Internet too.

https://www.urbackup.org/
 
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