What are you backing up with?

Question

System administration

Actually I am in search of opportunities for implementation of backup. I want, like many others, that

• For free
  
• Full backup
  
• Backup changes
  
• Scheduled
  
• Ideally, that would also delete archives older than a certain "age"
  

Now there are 3 scripts that run on the Windows scheduler:

1. creating a 7-zip archive_full
   
2. creating a 7-zip change_archive
   
3. determination of the date of creation of archives and deletion of archives that do not pass the retention period
   

It does not always work adequately and sometimes you have to start tasks with your hands
. That's actually the question arose - how else can this be done. Now I'm looking at CobianBackup and testing it in a test environment, or can you tell me something else?
Application in the structure of a corporate network with a lot of information

Answer 1

Cobian Backup.
It works just as well as it has a disgusting and illogical interface :)
I tried Acronis a few years ago, but then it did not know how to Shadow Copy and therefore was useless. Also for money.

Answer 2

nnbackup, I've been using it for several years.
configured for one-way data synchronization with the backup folder, it is launched via nncron lite.
PS winrar with the right settings compresses faster than 7zip

Answer 3

APBackup - it was so cheap when you bought it that it's practically free.
The functionality is just yours.
I have 2 files from one server are archived to another server.
The volume is about 1.5 G.
Full copies, differential copies, do not keep more than 10 differential copies, we copy this, we skip this ...

Answer 4

I have been using backblaze for a long time, it costs 5 bucks a month,
close to my ideal

Answer 5

Bacula/Bareos/Rsync

Answer 6

Duplicati
In addition to the above, it can encrypt AES-256 and upload anywhere (Amazon S3, Windows Live SkyDrive, Google Drive (Google Docs), Rackspace Cloud Files or WebDAV, SSH, FTP).

Answer 7

symantec backup exec. it is possible to make a backup copy as on a disk shelf (daily). or to the tape library (one-time, weekly, monthly, shadow, incremental). there is a fine-tuning of the schedule and what and where to backup. great item but a bit pricey. for medium-sized companies for whom losing the necessary information is a big problem, then this software is for you. I myself use.

Answer 8

so there is a native utility, if you wish, you can expand the capabilities using powershell, for example

Answer 9

Microsoft Sync Toy. I like the preview mode - it's easy to control the process. I keep an exact copy of my home HDD on a portable one and use SyncToy to sync them once a week. I always have a portable HDD with me, in which case everything is at hand. The only disadvantage of SyncToy is conflict handling. It cannot show conflicts in files that have been modified at the same time, but simply considers a file with a more recent date to be more up-to-date. Therefore, I try to change files only on one of the disks until synchronization is done. Additions and deletions work without problems.

Answer 10

BackupPC is a very good solution. Personally, I only back up Linux | FreeBSD machines, but with Windows there should be no particular problems, except that there may be problems with maintaining NTFS rights, but I did not study this issue. did not use for Windows.
And for Windows, I use the built-in backup tool. As an option, you can use a bundle from a local archiver and BackupPC, which will take archives into a single repository and be responsible for versioning.

Answer 11

on servers and on a linux laptop, I take backups with the help of the rdiff-backup
utility satisfies 4 out of 5 requirements specified in the topic (if I understand correctly, then "full backup" means creating a partition image - it cannot do this, it backups files)
but on a laptop additionally I backup the system partition using the utility, dd
I make backups on the servers daily. on a laptop once a week ( rdiff-backup+dd