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Posted: 30th Sep 2012 22:46
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Hey Guys,

Up until recently, all my work (coding, and otherwise) has been stored on a mirrored raid array contained in my server. Sadly, one of the mirrored drives died the other week, causing me all kinds of stress and worry.

I decided that maybe using Cloud Storage was the way forward; but as yet haven't had much luck trying to find something that is suitable, So I thought I would ask the community if you had any recomendations?

I need something which can...

i) Backup no more than 100Gb of data in the cloud.

ii) The Client needs to run under Windows Server 2003

iii) It needs to upload the files after midnight (due to some particually anal restrictions from my ISP), and not sync them as soon as they are edited.

Can anyone give me a prod in the right direction?

Thanks in advance


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Posted: 1st Oct 2012 00:38
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Your first mistake is that RAID is intended for maximum uptime, not data retention. A better alternative is to just take daily backups of one computer to another, and then backup that to a dvd or something once a month.

That said, if you want "the cloud", with your restrictions, amazon s3 is probably the way to go, there's a bajillion clients out there that can use it.

Also Owncloud might be useful to you as well, which is what I've been playing with lately.

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Posted: 2nd Oct 2012 03:02
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@bitJericho:
Thank you for the reply

Daily backups would be simpler if I had 100Gb disks to burn them to, which sadly I don't.

I opted for the mirrored array, as it at least offered more protection against loss than just using a single HDD.

I have looked into Amazon S3, but I don't seem to be able to find a client which meets my requirements.

I will look into Owncloud, but at first glance, I can see nothing about timed backups; only keeping files in sync which I don't really want.

Thanks again.


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Posted: 2nd Oct 2012 13:44 Edited at: 2nd Oct 2012 13:47
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You could use rsync.

Perhaps this: https://www.itefix.no/i2/cwrsync This seems like the best rsync port for windows.

Use rsync to sync files to a mounted s3 (or whatever) partition on the server.

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Quote: "Also Owncloud might be useful to you as well, which is what I've been playing with lately."


We came across ownCloud in a box (VMWare appliance) and have been using it on our LAN for some time. It works great, and the client on all our machines (2 laptops, 1 desktop) works perfectly. We have multiple syncs running and we like how we can specify a folder to sync rather than copying files to a folder first before syncing.


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Posted: 3rd Oct 2012 09:11 Edited at: 3rd Oct 2012 09:14
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If it's only work you want to back up, why not use a program like SyncBack (It should be on Softpedia) to run scheduled synchronisations to a separate drive. SyncBack will only sync a file if it is different from the current backup copy and holds features such as killing backups of files you delete etc. THEN have the cloud backup software running with the backup target being your backup drive. That way the backups will be done only when scheduled and you can control the backup from another application.

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