Backup Software
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Can anybody recommend some backup software for a small business?
Mate of mine needs to have something that is idiot proof as he knows nothing about computers. (And he owns a mobile phone business)
I have downloaded Handy Backup 4.1 which looks good.
But wondering if anyone has other recomendations.
I think he is thinking about getting the files out of his office/showroom incase burglers nick his computers. Most of the details he needs are probably going to be small files in excel I think.
Any suggestions?
Mate of mine needs to have something that is idiot proof as he knows nothing about computers. (And he owns a mobile phone business)
I have downloaded Handy Backup 4.1 which looks good.
But wondering if anyone has other recomendations.
I think he is thinking about getting the files out of his office/showroom incase burglers nick his computers. Most of the details he needs are probably going to be small files in excel I think.
Any suggestions?
Thanks guys.
I don't think he has much of a network so I think his requirements are quite low on the scale.
Last time I looked at the built in windows backup it only wanted to use floppys.
What this guy needs (and I think a lot of people need) is something that will automatically backup their days work for them. He is thinking of something that will send his daily info either by email or ftp to a remote computer so that if he is burgled he doesen't lose his data.
When I asked him how often he backed up his business files, he told me that sometimes it was more than two weeks.
You'd want to be lucky!
Thanks again.
I don't think he has much of a network so I think his requirements are quite low on the scale.
Last time I looked at the built in windows backup it only wanted to use floppys.
What this guy needs (and I think a lot of people need) is something that will automatically backup their days work for them. He is thinking of something that will send his daily info either by email or ftp to a remote computer so that if he is burgled he doesen't lose his data.
When I asked him how often he backed up his business files, he told me that sometimes it was more than two weeks.
You'd want to be lucky!
Thanks again.
assword:ftp.example.com Rjo - I'm a backup exec support engineer 
I'd say if he's just backing up a dead server at night to use the windows tool - it's backs up all your closed files and system state too. Should be enough to recover.
If you need Exchange backed up then windows backup can do that too.
Backup Exec can give you a SQL agent (for backing up open databases) along with one for Exchange, Lotus or Oracle. As explained above there is an open file option too which is handy if you can't switch off any applications during backup.
Backup Exec does cost a bomb though (pays my wages
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I'd say if he's just backing up a dead server at night to use the windows tool - it's backs up all your closed files and system state too. Should be enough to recover.
If you need Exchange backed up then windows backup can do that too.
Backup Exec can give you a SQL agent (for backing up open databases) along with one for Exchange, Lotus or Oracle. As explained above there is an open file option too which is handy if you can't switch off any applications during backup.
Backup Exec does cost a bomb though (pays my wages
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