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Advice for a large off-site backup project.

Asked by: chrisjustin

I need some advice for a large off-site backup project.  I have to 2 web sites that are on a dedicated Windows 2k3 Server somewhere.  The Server has two hard drives, one is the system drive and one is just for backing up. So I have a batch file that backups (via RoboCopy) up the folders that contain my sites and move them to Secondary HDD.  But I need a 3rd off site place to store my backups for worst case scenario protection. The websites are huge. One is 18 GB with 350,000 files and the other is 7 GB with 180,000 files. I have inherited this project, so I don't know enough about the files to be able to consolidate them to save space.

I need to do an off-site backup. I have access to a FTP sits on the same network as my server, so it is fast, but I running into a problems with FTP b/c of the number of files rather then the actual size. I am trying to do a find a way to do a differential back to the FTP Server, so I don't have to push 23 GB of data to the server at a time.  But, the shear number of files is causing my backup programs to lock up and not finish.

I have tried a lot of FTP Scheduled programs and got the closest with SyncBack SE, but I need to move in a new direction b/c I am just spinning my wheels.

What is the best way to transfer a large amount data and large number of files to machine that I only have FTP Access to?

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by: Another-DanPosted on 2006-02-20 at 16:31:57ID: 16004799

I use a program called ahsay remote backup. You can initally seed the files onto a firewire drive or similar, which is then put onto the remote server. Then the backups are incremental. Works fine for us, we have customers backing up 100GB + incrementally

 

by: krakkenPosted on 2006-02-20 at 18:44:11ID: 16005487

I like NovaStor's NovaNet Web - www.novastor.com  It's fast and does really well with lots of files (re-tries and stuff)

 

by: giltjrPosted on 2006-02-20 at 19:25:56ID: 16005685

If you only have FTP access, the first thing you want to do is get PKZip or some other type compression software.  The idea is not as much to compress the data, although that will help, as it is to get it into one file.

How often does the site change?  How often are you doing backups?

 

by: chrisjustinPosted on 2006-02-21 at 09:05:42ID: 16010455

Thanks to those who recommended program I will look into those.

 

by: chrisjustinPosted on 2006-02-21 at 11:12:49ID: 16011593

giltjr:
My sites are updated my multiple persons on a daily basis.  So I would like do daily backups, but I would only need to upload the .zip files one a week. Since this is essentially the 3 line of defense. Is there any reason to choose PKZip over Winzip. Winzip can be scheduled to automatically grab updated and modified .zip file and automatically FTP the file.

 

by: giltjrPosted on 2006-02-21 at 11:31:43ID: 16011796

Either zip product, any zip product, is fine as long as it meets your needs.  I was not really meaning to say to use PKZip, but more that you need a zip product like PKZip. WinZip will work just as good.

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