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 Posted: Sun, 30th Jun 2013 22:53 Post subject: Looking for file-based backup solution |
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Hello,
recently I reverted back to Windows 7 from Windows 8. I used Acronis True Image in past, but I thought it was too bloated/sluggish and so I chose Terabyte's Image for Windows as my disk imaging software. However I still somewhat miss Acronis' nonstop backup mode that I used for stuff like game saves, my local git repos repositories (I'm purely solo dev), documents and other mostly small, often changing files.
In short I'm looking for a solution that would be capable of:
- Making incremental delta binary backups. That means not copying only changed parts of the files, rather than full copy of new file
- VSS (or alternative) to allow backing up locked files
- Ideally have auto-consolidation feature (like acronis consolidated incremental backups older than 24 hours into a single backup and kept them for last 30 days)
- Decent compression
I know it's a lot to ask for. And I don't know if it's even feasible/possible to have all of these features at once. But aside from first feature on my wishlist, SyncBack Pro has been wonderful. I've been also looking at AX64 which looks really sweet (albeit it's not really file backup software, more like blend between disk snapshot and full blow imaging software). But AX64 is still very new software and so I expect it to be still a bit buggy sometimes for production use (and I read numerous reports that it's indeed the case).
Does anyone know of any program that would suit my needs? What are you using (if anything)?
Also - I'm not looking for online backup solution, like Dropbox. Offline only. While it'd be nice to have stuff stored online too, it's not really possible in my case. Ideally I'd do backups every few minutes, or 1 hour at most. My internet link is highly asymmetrical (22Mbps down, 1.4Mbps up) so it'd take forever to upload backups sometimes.
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| Posted: Tue, 2nd Jul 2013 07:13 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 2nd Jul 2013 07:39 Post subject: |
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While I cannot offer you an application layer solution to this if you are serious with your backups, as you do appear to be (especially for Dev Work) you may wish to consider start using a local server backup with RAID/LVM on both to keep the integrity of your data.
You mentioned game backups which is a bit "meh" as most of that is kept in clouds already, however if you're doing development work, that really doesn't have much a reason to be backed up every few minutes if you're saving locally properly or have the hardware reliance that you need for that kind of work.
As someone in that line of work, 1.4 up should be plenty for code. if you're doing some other type of large size Devel work that REALLY needs to be backed up that frequently you're going to want to invest into a master-slave-slave type setup onsite with preferable RAID or LVM setup to keep data integrity at a maximum instead of relying on Application layer. If possible do both if you can find the software that can handle that type of situation.
If you really are just looking for Game Saves and little documents that are saving often, set up a cron job(Scheduled Task) to rar them every 6 hours and upload them somewhere like DropBox / Rackspace / AWS / Whatever.
Best of luck, Please Ignore the drunken typos, Even in windows, set up a Linux On-site to store data, Windows 8...7....NT...use Linux for your filestore 
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