Hi Everyone

I hope you lot can help.

I want to be able to backup my clients accounts and servers to network harddrives at my home. Is there a way of doing this automatically

Any suggestions or ideas will be appreciated.

Jamie

If you are running Linux servers then a simple rsync (google it) script will probably do the trick fine.

Having said that I really wouldnt recommend backing up to your home, look at getting a solution within your datacentre -- it will make restores a whole lot easier.

What control panel are you using? Also what Os are you using at home?

Whether you're running Windows or Linux, the most efficient method would be to use Rsync. If your desktop PC runs Windows, you can use the Windows Scheduler to have Rsync pull down the most recent version of the files on the server. If your desktop is running Linux, then a similar cron job would do.

Do keep in mind that restoring a backup from a home PC in most cases will be quite difficult due to a lack of upload speed, but at least you'll have a physical copy of the data in case something happens to your server.

http://rsync.samba.org/