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Backing up a server over the internet

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by lavon_699

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I have some customers that do not have backup drives on their servers. They want to use one of my servers to do a nightly backup. Is this a job for IIS5.0 FTP Server. Also, if my clients network crash and they repair it and I have to send data back to them. Will they have to go through the steps of converting the data from ASCII back to it's original format?
I'm open to suggestions or is there a better software I can purchase that will do it better.

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by choppit

Advise your customers to get backup drives. If your customers data is of any value to them they ought to take backups seriously.

by lavon_699

I advised them to get a backup but no luck....They don't want to spend the money, I guess their data isn't important to them

by joseph moore

Well, they could do a nightly FTP dump of their data, sending it in binary mode to your server.
But I agree with Answer1. They need to take backups seriously and invest in their own local backup solution, like Jaz drives, or DLT drives, or DAT drives.
Tape backup can be very economical.

by jschein

You did not post guestimated size of their drives needed for backup... if it is only 2 mb's.. sure ftp it... ... ...

Remote internet backups of ANY subsystem / server is highly not recommended. So much can happen, especially with packet readers online. Do they want their information to be read, then posted somewhere?

Only logical solution is a tape backup drive system. If they have more than one machine, they can get a "Network" tape backup drive system. All stated, runs from $1000 - $10,000 depending on the type of drive and the software licenses needed.

Good luck.

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