best backup for a small business?

[ajna_star]

i have a client who wants to backup a few computers on a daily basis... not something ive dealt with before, so im completely open to hardware/software suggestions.


i was thinking iomega rev drives?

[jon5137]

How many computers and how much data?

[Undeadlord]

How about a cheap fileserver with a DVD burner for weekly offsite backups? Each day users can backup to the file server and then every Friday burn a DVD for offsite backups?


Undeadlord

[sr71000]

does he need to do complete backups of the entire computer, or just of particular files in a certain folder? I'd make a file server as well, but I'd have people store everything on the file server, with daily windows backups to a usb hard drive and also weekly backups to dvd .

[ajna_star]

2 computers, maybe 1/2 gig of data... just a few folders, not the whole computer.

any recomendations for software... something fast and not flakey? maybe something he could just click at the end of the day that woudl backup, then shut
off his computer?

ide rather have something a little more stable hard drive, and easier than swapping CD's everyday...

reliability is KEY here...

[Zoltar]

I use a freeware program called Syncback. I use it to do a daily backup of my entire user profile (my docs, etc) to another hard drive, and then periodically create backups of the backup using DVD's, for redundancy.

Any backup system is good as long as you use it - like keeping a battery in your smoke detector.

With Syncback you can set to backup unattended, and you can omit certain folders from the backup routine, like not backing up your Internet catch, for example.