I am looking for some backup software which can be installed and configured onto some laptops in a small business.
They have a HP Microserver running ubuntu, with Samba shares.
The laptop users spend most of their time out of the office (financial advisors).
I am looking for a backup tool which can be installed onto their laptops. When they are in the office, connected to the office network via wifi or ethernet cable, the software runs, syncs their user folder, backups their Zimbra email profiles, and also takes a backup of their document folders.
Each user is in the office at least once per week.
Ultimately these users are responsible for their own data, as they are all self employed, but my client who owns the business, wants some form of backup in place for the laptops, as loss in data will cost her, as much as it costs each financial advisor
I have tested with clients laptop over VPN and the backups are too slow. The office has an ADSL connection 5Mb down / 1Mb up, and their homes etc are all pretty similar.
Zimbra profiles are ~ 200-300Mb
Their user folders are ~ 100-200Mb
And document folders ~ 50-100Mb.
Based on the above backing up over the VPN is not the best solution due to speeds and time it will take each user.
I have considered dropbox and other cloud solutions, and again do not believe they are feasible.
There is no issue with speed in the office as with have gigabit connections to each desk, and wifi aswell, and each laptop user shares 2 desks, so there are never more than 2 of them in at any one time, so backups in the office are not an issue.
So to summarise:-
I am looking for a backup/sync solution that can be set to run automatically with no user input when connected to a specific network.
Happy to look into backup scripts or software to trigger backup software to run based on the connection.
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Hey Neowinians,
I am looking for some backup software which can be installed and configured onto some laptops in a small business.
They have a HP Microserver running ubuntu, with Samba shares.
The laptop users spend most of their time out of the office (financial advisors).
I am looking for a backup tool which can be installed onto their laptops. When they are in the office, connected to the office network via wifi or ethernet cable, the software runs, syncs their user folder, backups their Zimbra email profiles, and also takes a backup of their document folders.
Each user is in the office at least once per week.
Ultimately these users are responsible for their own data, as they are all self employed, but my client who owns the business, wants some form of backup in place for the laptops, as loss in data will cost her, as much as it costs each financial advisor
I have tested with clients laptop over VPN and the backups are too slow. The office has an ADSL connection 5Mb down / 1Mb up, and their homes etc are all pretty similar.
Zimbra profiles are ~ 200-300Mb
Their user folders are ~ 100-200Mb
And document folders ~ 50-100Mb.
Based on the above backing up over the VPN is not the best solution due to speeds and time it will take each user.
I have considered dropbox and other cloud solutions, and again do not believe they are feasible.
There is no issue with speed in the office as with have gigabit connections to each desk, and wifi aswell, and each laptop user shares 2 desks, so there are never more than 2 of them in at any one time, so backups in the office are not an issue.
So to summarise:-
I am looking for a backup/sync solution that can be set to run automatically with no user input when connected to a specific network.
Happy to look into backup scripts or software to trigger backup software to run based on the connection.
Thanks in advance.
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