I have been pulling my hair out trying to implement a remote backup solution for my Windows server on very limited resources. My off-site storage is a NAS drive that only has FTP capabilities, not SFTP or SSH, so I also require something that will encrypt the files as it transfers them over the Internet. There is not much of a budget for software, and most of the standard server backup solutions run in the hundreds of dollars. So far all of the cheap solutions that I have tested are unreliable or just don't work at all. So far, the closest I have gotten has been Ace Backup 3, but I have been unsuccessful in getting it to backup all of my files properly. Can anyone recommend a solution that would:
- Perform nightly incremental backups to FTP
- Compress and encrypt files for transfer
- Send e-mail notifications
- Be reliable and provide a method for verifying the backups
- Cost under $100
This is driving me nuts, and I would love to have it off of my plate! Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
I'm not aware of any backup solution that will do what you are asking. However, you could script a job that will do what you need...
You can use NTBackup to do the backup, have 7-Zip compress it, have Gnu Privacy Guard encrypt it, then use the built-in ftp client to transfer it.
No email notifications, but you can have all of this logged and it is free (except for your time).
Example script for NTBackup: http://tim.mackey.ie/ASampleNTbackupScriptWithTheCurrentDatetimeInTheFilenameAndBackupLabel.aspx
7-Zip command line info: http://dotnetperls.com/7-zip-examples
GPG command line info: http://www.somacon.com/p107.php
Scripting FTP example: http://www.brettb.com/ScriptingWindowsFTP.asp
Try SyncBackSE http://www.2brightsparks.com I've used it for a number of years and it's been great.
does FTP backups supports encryption & compression sends email logs jobs to HTML Something like $30