Robocopy works great over WAN connections. Won't cover everything. On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Angus Scott-Fleming <[email protected]>wrote:
> Has anyone ever heard of a backup server system that works in two or more > locations where the backup server in location 1 will back up all the > systems > there (desktops and servers) and the backup server in location 2 will do > the > same for its location. The two servers should also back each other up, so > if > one office burns down, we'll have an off-site backup elsewhere. > > Right now desktops are primarily Windows XP, with a few *nix boxen, servers > are > a mix of *nix and Windows, so I don't think Microsoft makes a solution that > will work. > > For legal reasons we don't want to use a third party like Mozy, Carbonite, > or > Amazon S3; since we have multiple locations, why not use them for our > offsite > backups? > > Total number of workstations is 25-30 in primary office, 10 in satellite > offices; when we're done, we will probably have 1 Windows or SAMBA > file-and- > print server in each satellite office plus several in primary office. Not > sure > if we're going with Exchange Server for our mail server or something FLOSS. > > Please don't suggest BackupPC, although it would work perfectly for an > in-house > solution, its reliance on hard links means it's not feasible to use rsync > to > mirror it to an offsite location. > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
