Question : Problem: Backup solution for multiple computers

Hello, we have a small office with at most 15 computers, they are all connected to a Switch, each workstation is working as standalone, they are mixed between Vista an XP Pro.

I am looking for an application that can synchronize all of the important information of every station to a local NAS that we recently bought.

I tried once SecondCopy but it crashed a lot and it was not well accepted from the end user.

Thank you

Answer : Problem: Backup solution for multiple computers

Up until recently we used RSync but I found that it wasn't stable enough. We have since moved to RoboCopy (which comes free as part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools) and found this meets our requirements.

It is easy to script via a batch file and can then be run as a scheduled task. We use it to copy data from a remote workers desktop over to his USB drive then over to our server where we back it up, as well as between servers on our LAN.

It will be ideal for your situation.

Take a look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy

Here is an example of one of our scripts:

ROBOCOPY G:\Archive_Drive\ R:\Archive_Drive\ /E /B /PURGE /R:3 /W:3 /NP /TEE