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I'm looking for a software that will help me backup a server with 5TB of data. My wishlist:

  • Backup on 1-2TB SATA disks
  • Should need little to no configuration (just the directories to backup and the slot of my RAID system where it can find a backup disk)
  • No or smart compression (most data is audio and video files)
  • Easy restore of all data
  • Backup should start by switching drives
  • Software should make sure that the backups are redundant enough (so that failing sectors of a disk don't mean data loss)
  • When I rename/move a file, it should notice and just record the change (instead of backing up the whole file again). Or maybe automatic deduplication.
  • Spin down the backup drive when it doesn't need it to extend disk life
  • It should keep deleted files for a period of time but I also need an option to purge files more quickly
  • I'd prefer if it kept files together (so if they are in the same directory, they should also end up on the same disk). Maybe it should use two backup disks: One with all incremental changes and then one with an archive.

Anything you could recommend?

[EDIT] I'm on Linux :-)

Andrea
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Aaron Digulla
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I recommend Acronis

http://www.acronis.com/backup-recovery/server-linux/

Moab
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OK, I assume you use Windows OS? Try Symantec backup system recovery desktop/server edition depends what OS you have. Other good program is ViceVersa. Both of them has trial, and you can try it before you buy it. Hope it helps:)

Dmytry
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You can write a cron job to do the backup. In my server, I just TAR everything needed to be backup to other data storage server via network every night. After a successful TAR action, I delete the old copy of backup.

In your case, I think it takes more than a night to backup all your data. Are your files being changed frequently? If only a small part of the 5TB is changed, consider the use of FTP instead of cp. Only overwrites the files that is needed to be transferred. More, FTP scripts are not difficult to be written.

Give it a try. Work / Not Working ? Tell us after try.

Raptor
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©XSIBackup is free to be used in Linux. It features differential replication and backup with deduplication at block level. It includes a FUSE file system that you can use to mount the virtually unlimited number of mount points to extract individual files.

Yo can download it from Sourceforge.net: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xsibackup-app/files/

Daniel J.
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