dirky Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 Hi, I'm looking at a suitable backup solution for a small business. They have about 8 workstations and are using an XP prof box with shared folders for their file storage. I'm looking for a simple solution based on removable USB hard drives. I'd like to ensure these shared folders are backed up and at any one point there is enough backup data off site to restore these files/folders to data this is maybe 1 week or less old. They have a member of staff on site who is able to login to the 'backup' 'server' and run some simple commands, change backup disks etc Which version of Retrospect is best suited to this and what kind of setup do I need? They are also keen to be able to do a test restore of some files to a laptop every so often to ensure the backups are working as expected and to make sure they could get up and running again if the building burned down. Many thanks D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirky Posted April 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2010 Anybody any ideas on this? thanks d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 You can get a Professional edition with a client add-on pack so that you can backup each workstation client on the network. If you need to protect any server OS's then you should get a single server or maybe even multiserver edition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirky Posted April 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 Hi Robin, I only need to backup the files which are located in a single folder on one PC. Thanks D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 21, 2010 Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 Then the Pro version might be just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirky Posted April 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2010 Thanks. Can I enable full backup to each disk? I need to ensure that whatever disk is stored off site I can do a full recovery? Maybe I'm talking my way out of needing a backup program at all now? D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted June 4, 2010 Report Share Posted June 4, 2010 Yes, each destination disk normally contains a full backup. (You CAN avoid that if you are really detemined.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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