[windows2000] Re: Remote Backups

  • From: thethin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:38:21 -0400 (EDT)

I looked at RoboCopy, but I don't have vpn capability at this time - I
would have to replace all of the remote routers.  Only backing up the
changed files would be ideal - just don't know of a secure way over a
non-vpn connection ... maybe there is no other way??

Dave




On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Angus Macdonald wrote:

> Are you doing a full data backup every night? We use RoboCopy every night to
> synchronise our remote servers with mirror-image folders on our main
> fileserver. Because only changed files are transferred the overall data
> transferred is comparatively small. Robocopy is a free MS command-line
> utility. I'm not sure if this would be secure enough for you though. Could
> you setup a VPN connection for the transfer?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thethin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thethin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 August 2004 04:15
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> Subject: [windows2000] Remote Backups
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>
> We have 6 remote offices with Broadband internet access.  We currently
> have a zip script that takes the data and ftps it to our main office
> everynight.  The data is exceeding 500MB zipped and on occasion is
> experiencing a timeout during the ftp.
>
> Does anybody have any better recommendations for remote backups with
> large amounts of data and a non-secure internet connection - local
> tape backup is not an option at this point due to unreliable employees
> taking the responsibility.
>
>
> Thanks
> Dave
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