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Best Remote Backup Solution ?

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by optronix_quebec

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Hi

I'm wondering which backup software you guys would recommend for a usage scenario like this in a Small Business environement :

1) A server at our Head Office
2) My machine at home to which a USB HDD is connected

I'd like to be able to initiate a remote backup at a set time (2 AM) and have it FTP to my home computer to copy files that were modified during the night (to have a working offsite backup) and send the FTP data in a compressed stream to save bandwith.

Currently, I've ghosted locally the whole system to the USB HDD already since I'd like it to be a drop-in replacement in case of emergency and I've set up SyncBack, a nice little freeware utility (even for businesses) that's very versatile. However the only way for it to send compressed data is to make them into zip files which I don't want as I want a drop in replacement.

Basically, what would you guys recommend as the best backup software you've used/heard of that simply compresses its own FTP traffic without making the files into zip files ?

Thanks!

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by hal 9000

As people who look at the discussions don't always look at the Questions and vise versa. You'll also get a auto generated Response sent to you every time that some one posts a answer to your question so it's faster.

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by optronix_quebec

I posted here in discussion because I wanted to know a bit more about people's personnal experiences rather than just have software pieces. Kind of get a debate going. Guess my original post wasn't worded in a way to give that impression though.

I ended up setting up a filezilla server and going for the SE version of SyncBack as they both support zlib which does what I'm looking for.

Thanks for the tip though. I wasn't exactly a 100% on where this topic should have gone in the first place.

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