Hi folks,

Just wanted to see what other people are doing for their web hosting server backup solution.

We run a couple of tape drives and an autoloader at present to backup 15+ windows 2003 servers. We have a new solution and we cannot do a tape rotation. Just looking to see what others are doing.

I'm quite keen on getting a cheap windows nas box in the rack and using it to dump copies of software onto them. Looking at backing up about 250gb per night.

Any ideas and suggestions?

We do off-site backups to remote servers.

How often do you create off-site backups? I'm assuming you have more frequent on-site backups

We do daily backups + weekly backups.

We first backup to a secondary drive, and then backup the secondary drive to an offsite server. Essentially having backups in two locations.

Automated offsite backups, weekly. For a selected number of sites i.e. our own Helpdesk we take daily database backups as well.

daily backups offsite using rsync and 6hourly backup of databases onsite.

We have been using a lot of resources to find a good backup solution that we could trust.

We've done onsite backups to a second hdd, nightly sync backups to a remote server, we've tested bqbackup.com, we've tested our isps backup space......

There is only one solution that has made possible for me to forget other backup solutions and that is r1soft.com. Their software might cost a bit to purchase but it's good, very good.

I have no association to r1soft either than a satisfied customer :> I guess this is what they were hoping when they were doing the extra mile for me.

We do Nightly backups which are kept for 2 weeks from the date of the backup, one copy is kept on the server on a second drive, another is FTP'd to our backup server which is in a different location. We're currently looking into the r1soft solution as our current system is becoming a little too busy on our network.

Our newer servers run r1soft, older servers are running on bqbackup.com still. bqbackup has been quite good, we just wanted to move backups in house and give cpanel users access to restore their own files.

We've been using bqbackup.com for a long time. I think we have about 3 TB of backups there now.

--Tina

r1soft... when local stoage filled up on the machine we started using isci targets for the storage.

Daily backups to the on site backup server using BMU (found on cpanel forums) then once a week those are synced to an off site system. I am looking at r1soft is a replacement to the current system. Only thing holding me back there is I do read complaints about it causing serious load problems from time to time.

We use an HP EVA off site. All fiber channel and works very well.

We use a daily backup of data to another server at a different location(just in case of fire). Once a week this is duplicated once more. for the worst worst case.

R1Soft's CDP, backup server has a DAS to allow for easy expansion.

On server backups nightly. 3 - 1TB drives in the same rack on a backup (and DNS resolver) machine which hold daily, weekly and monthly which are rotated out and replaced manually whenever I go to the data center.

yay for backups

I have a local backup system here at home (on VPS ATM), and I back up everything to CDRW nightly, which I keep 3 months back before I recycle the discs, and a Backup HDD. After the backup is done, I transfer it to 2 32G Flash Drives, which I carry on my person at all times, along with another 32G with a complete OS Reload that is updated every time a new Patch or Update comes out.

Ok call me paranoid...

cPanel backup to a 2nd HDD nightly and twice a month offsite backup to another data center.

Nightly WHM/cPanel backups to a secondary drive then to an off-site data center using rsync via a postcpbackup script. Backup rotations for Daily, Weekly and Monthly both locally and off-site.

Backup to a VPS (nightly) on a different provider and once a week to Amazon S3.

Hi folks,

Thanks for all the tips. Ive just started trialling this software for a company local to us:
http://www.itanswers.biz/remote-backup

99p per gb and it includes sql server backup and exchange as well as offering versioning. A lot better than what the other online backup companies offer.

I will let you know how it goes