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I work at a construction company that sets up office trailers on our projects. Typically the office trailer will have a networked hard drive for anyone working in the trailer. We would like the networked drives to automatically backup to our office server on a regular basis. If possible we would like to use the one of the MyBook live hard drives, is there a way to set them up to automatically backup to a folder on a server? If not, is there a program we can install on our server that automatically backs up a MyBook drive? Also, is it worth considering using a 3rd party offsite backup company for the networked drives and do they work with MyBook drives?
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| # ? Feb 21, 2013 16:21 |
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| # ? May 24, 2013 06:51 |
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Do you have a WAN link? If so, I would recommend batch, robocopy, and a scheduled task.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 03:40 |
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Would this be a manual process? CrashPlan Pro might be more convenient: backup from clients to a server, not to the Internet.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 23:42 |
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How much data is typically manipulated on a daily basis at the site? Construction, I'm thinking a lot of PDFs and office docs? If you have a connection to the internet from the trailer, and the data sizes are small enough, you might just set remote users up to open/manipulate documents on the server as opposed to storing it all onsite. The only issue would be if the typical file sizes are too large for the connection speed.
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| # ? Feb 23, 2013 03:11 |
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Spasticthinker posted:How much data is typically manipulated on a daily basis at the site? Construction, I'm thinking a lot of PDFs and office docs? We've tried working off the office server in the past, it's way too slow especially considering a lot of times we have crappy internet at the jobsite. Plus a lot of the drawings we receive are upwards of 50 megs. One suggestion I've gotten is to run robocopy DOS script on a laptop at jobsite office trailer to mirror any changes made from the networked drive to the office server on a nightly basis. Does this sound reasonable and does anyone know how to write a robocopy script that would run automatically at a certain time?
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| # ? Feb 26, 2013 15:49 |
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Smoking_Dragon posted:We've tried working off the office server in the past, it's way too slow especially considering a lot of times we have crappy internet at the jobsite. Plus a lot of the drawings we receive are upwards of 50 megs. Yeah I suspected the file sizes for drawing sets might be huge. Have you considered just using the built-in Windows Backup program? I've used it before for simple backups, works great. Fairly easy to schedule, etc. If that's something you're interested in, start here http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/...k-up-your-files It's been a while since I set up scheduled batch scripts so I can't offer a lot of advice on that.
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| # ? Feb 26, 2013 16:34 |
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Microsoft Synctoy should work nicely for you when trying to mirror data from your server to your office machine. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/2504...r-in-windows-7/
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| # ? Feb 26, 2013 23:46 |
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| # ? May 24, 2013 06:51 |
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I've been using Cobian Backup to backup files. It supports backing up to a mapped drive and FTP, scheduled backups, backing up as an archive so you can have one zip file with that days backup, and you can also take remote control of other Cobian backup installs from one location. Most important, it can create multiple backups in one location, this way you can go back to a previous days backup.
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| # ? Feb 27, 2013 03:43 |
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