jrj
September 9th, 2007, 06:05 PM
I have a peer-to-peer network of five workstations and one serves as a server for a database. All are on Windows XP Pro. The total amount of data on the network is less than 20 GB.
I just bought a 320 GB Western Digital external hard drive to begin a backup system for data. I am perplexed as to what software to buy. My experience with backup software always leaves be numb due to the use of catalogs and compressed files. I find restore procedures not user friendly. Is there a software package that is self-contained and does not require a secondary file? I guess I've always liked the concept of PKZip at this point. But PKZip is not for network backups. I need a reliable software package that will do the job and is user friendly. I am the only technically oriented person in the office and others may need to access the backups to restore missing data without me there.
I am thinking of backing up each workstation independently in separate files on the same hard drive. I think a daily backup at night time will serve the best provedure. That will give me a hard drive with 1 daily file for PC1, PC2, PC2, PC4, and PC5. Then probably a weekly backup for each PC. In this way I should have adequate room on the hard drive and adequate backup files. In this way the hard drive would always have five daily backups and five weekly backups on it.
Can anyone recommend a software package to meet these needs?
I just bought a 320 GB Western Digital external hard drive to begin a backup system for data. I am perplexed as to what software to buy. My experience with backup software always leaves be numb due to the use of catalogs and compressed files. I find restore procedures not user friendly. Is there a software package that is self-contained and does not require a secondary file? I guess I've always liked the concept of PKZip at this point. But PKZip is not for network backups. I need a reliable software package that will do the job and is user friendly. I am the only technically oriented person in the office and others may need to access the backups to restore missing data without me there.
I am thinking of backing up each workstation independently in separate files on the same hard drive. I think a daily backup at night time will serve the best provedure. That will give me a hard drive with 1 daily file for PC1, PC2, PC2, PC4, and PC5. Then probably a weekly backup for each PC. In this way I should have adequate room on the hard drive and adequate backup files. In this way the hard drive would always have five daily backups and five weekly backups on it.
Can anyone recommend a software package to meet these needs?