How do you back up user files on a domain network?

Question

Backup

Given: DC, Fileserver, 1C, etc. - on 2012R2.
~100 users - windows 7.
What software do you use and what scheme for backing up files from users' computers?
I am looking for the best option for myself, preferably using the tools built into windows or freeware.
As everyone knows - in windows server there is a "folder redirection". This thing works fine if you configure it BEFORE the user first logs on to the computer under a domain account. If this is configured on an already created domain account profile, empty folders with the same name are created next to the redirected folders. For example, if I want to redirect the "My Documents" folder, then after applying the group policy, the default folder (to which the "My Documents" shortcut leads) will become empty, and the folder lying next to it will be the folder that was, which should have been redirected to the network ball, but it doesn't happen.

Answer 1

Databases, file cleaners - Data Protection Manager
Files from user PCs - Cobian Backup 11 (Gravity)
Specific files under certain conditions - Robocopy + 7-zip
Virtual servers - Veeam Backup Free Edition
Critical user PC OS - Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE
There is a method for file cleaners copying all the good stuff via robocopy to a separate file server with Windows 2012/2012R2 with deduplication enabled on the volume. The changes are simply put into a new folder marked with the date. Extremely fast and convenient.

Answer 2

Drag and drop everything to virtual machines, and backup using Veeam :-)
As for "what" to backup - here everyone chooses what he likes best. Kobian, Bareos, built-in Windows backups. When physical servers prevailed, we used Acronis for Windows and dump/restore for FreeBSD. But at that time, Acronis created more problems - there was not a week that I didn’t contact support, it was so buggy (this is the case of 2011-2013). Maybe things have changed since then, I don't know.
As for "how" to back up, the strategy is simple. On weekends, full backups are usually made, and on weekdays at night - differential or incremental archives, depending on the volume of changing files during the working day. And you need to regularly check backups - try to deploy backups somewhere on a test bench to make sure that your backups are not broken. Ideally, backups should also be stored in two geographically separated locations. That is, not even in the same building. The so-called "3-2-1" tactic: you should have three backups, two of them on different physical media, and one of them should be stored in another building.

Answer 3

~150 users (xubuntu, windows)
www.urbackup.org
Uses rsync technology
+ client and server parts are both under the line and under the line
+ everything is configured through the web face
+ built-in web server (i.e. no need for Apache, etc.)
+ data is stored unchanged (compare with bacula)
- data is not compressed (although there is archiving in the settings, I probably didn’t figure it out)

Answer 4

I have a small organization and ~30PCs.
I do it with Cobian without any compression. once there was already a problem that after archiving it, I could not restore the archive. On the server, it starts on schedule every day Difference and at the end of the week Full and then all this is sent to FTP. And once a month the old backup is deleted.
Copies: 1C (file base) and data on the server (user files/documents) file-garbage is not backed up. The total size is 125.5GB. Although the pros, if you have a Linux server, recommend making a backup via Bareos

Answer 5

Disks of users are distributed on iscsi and lie on ocf2-cluster. Backup using reflink - standard ocfs2 tool