Anyone know of a good windows backup utility that utilizes ftp or sftp?

I'd like to index the files, compress then send them to a server (unix) on anouther network.

Would be nice if it supported incremental and differential backups as well.

Thanks for any suggestions.

T7702

I would be very interested in the response to this also.

Hi,

You can try with Veritas Backup Exec™ for Windows Servers
http://www.veritas.com/Products/www?c=product&refId=57
and can also try with this
http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/win_backup.htm

Regards,

Bright


:)

I use Windows own backup system and then PyrobatchFTP (http://www.emtec.com/pyrobatchftp) to ftp the files to a remote space. Works terrific.

Originally posted by JDMundo
I use Windows own backup system and then PyrobatchFTP (http://www.emtec.com/pyrobatchftp) to ftp the files to a remote space. Works terrific.

Have you ever had to restore from this backup? Do you know if it is backing up your mySQL and MS SQL databases? How does this handle "open files"? I understand that several of the methods people use have a problem with open files.

Thanks

i've always used XCOPY, and/or WinZip w/ Command Line Tool, and built in FTP (utilizing FTP script)...

never had ANY problems whatsoever.

oh... and except for the WinZip w/ CommandLineTool, free... with WZ and CLTool it's minimal costwise.

Good thinking. PowerArchiver has a similar feature I just found as well. It allows you zip/compress the data then it will FTP is after its done.

Even supports incrimental as well...

Here I was looking for an ftp application that could zip and compress when I had a zip and compess application that could ftp this whole time. :D

T7702

Originally posted by justhost
Have you ever had to restore from this backup? Do you know if it is backing up your mySQL and MS SQL databases? How does this handle "open files"? I understand that several of the methods people use have a problem with open files.

Thanks

I use the MS SQL backup feature to backup the databases into separate files I save into a directory that the NT backup includes in the backup. NT backup wont allow you to backup the MSSQL MDF files for example, so you need to do that backup trick in MSSQL. Beyond that, I have never had issues with backing up files in use or restoring files.