Imaging Software - Incremental BU / Restore features

[fin23]

Hi all


Just want to pick someones brains, I have a client with a small office and around 7 machines that need protecting.

Now I am in the hunt for something along the lines of carbon copy cloner or time machine from the mac side.

I am going to install an external HDD to each machine that requires a backup and have some software running to perform BU at night.

I already have essential Docs backing up to the cloud at present. I Need a disaster recovery solution, we had a storm last month and it fried one of the machines completely.

I would like to be able to restore a blown machine to the last good image in the future.

Mixture of XP & Win 7 in the office, cost is a factor.. acronis is around £50 per machine which will increase costs quite a bit. A NAS drive is not a solution as i want all PC's to have their own image, saved in a different location.

I have seen a few windows clone / imaging software but they all seem to be command line and non incremental..

any help?

Thanks all.

 

[TLE]

Well for a start Windows 7 already has an inbuilt backup facility which can take an image of the system and incremental back ups.

 

[fin23]

yeah, I am aware that windows 7 has that functionality, only 15% of users have windows 7, I need all machines backing up the same way ideally. I don't want 1 or 2 machines acting in a different way to others.

 

[fixitdaz]

Paragon Drive Backup 10 SBS looks a good bit of kit, haven tried it yet haven't had time to test it out but if its as good as it sounds I will be using it.

http://www.paragon-software.com/business/db-sbs/

 

[shamrin]

I have been using Macrium for a year now and really like it. I have 2 licensed copies of Shadoprotect Desktop which is generally considered the gold standard for imaging but I prefer Macrium. Sometimes if I have a really screwed-up drive I still have to use Shadowprotect. Macrium is a good bit cheaper than Acronis as well.

 

[red12049]

Snapshot: http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/ will do it, as will any of the others. None of them except Acronis, to my knowledge, will check for sufficient space on the backup drive.

Rick

 

[frase]

Acronis have the best backup solution in my opinion, though the inbuilt backup of windows does it job to an extent.