Any decent open source backup software for windows 2003?

[superatticman]

Hiya

Can anyone recommend reliable backup software for windows 2003 server? It doesnt have to be anything advanced and is plugged into a standalone tape drive. Its a server with 8 user accounts on and about 2.5gb of data to back up.

Just want something which gives you a little more flexibility and information than the Microsoft Backup utility.

Cheers

[cpjitservices]

Rsync to a Linux machine - FBackup 4 or Robocopy for Windows.

We use RSYNC to backup EVERYTHING - basically we mount a Windows Partition (Server 2008) on a Linux Server using mount (mount it onto something like /win2008dc) - specifiying the correct credentials then basically use Rsync to copy everything over from /win2008dc to a backup drive (in this case we have a 6TB drive in the box) so we copy everything from the /win2008dc directory to the 6TB drive - Rsync keeps all the permissions and everything the same - we run it as a script (cron) so if the server is rebooted the mount is done then a backup is done but only updates files / folders that have been changed. We also have the script write to a log file then the log file is emailed to us so we know what has been backed up and the size of the backup.

[CyberNerd]

another vote for rsync.

[webman]

We used to use Cobian Backup on several Windows boxes.

[cpjitservices]

Cobian is good, I'm using it now for the Windows Profile Backups!