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Automated backups of a SAN
Hi creative cow. Long time and highly indebted reader, first time poster.
We have an editshare at our post house, but we have never implemented a solid backup system for it.Does anyone have any suggestions for backup software that:
– Creates an identical copy of the media (Time Machine style incremental backups are not needed)
– Backs up intelligently (i.e. it backs up only the files that don’t exist on the current backup)
– Can back up networked volumes to a local drive
– Can be customised to backup certain volumes to certain drives.
– Scheduling so that it can be done at night.Just to explain the scenario to anyone who isn’t familiar with the way editshare organizes its media. There would be a number of volumes mounted on a dedicated backup computer (around 25 or so) and there would be a few locally attached (esata) drives for backup. I would need to backup certain volumes to certain drives so that I could fit the 20TB editshare to the 6TB local drives.
Thanks in advance, hope I haven’t been to verbose.
P.S I know about Ark, but it is overkill for what we require.
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7 Replies
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Ah, and of course I forgot to mention that we are a Mac only post house. Mixture of 10.5 and 10.6
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If this is not religious (grin), you can run robocopy from Win7 VM (Parallels or Fusion). I am sure though there is a Unix shell command in OSX that has a similar functionality to robocopy.
Alex (DV411)
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Check out BRU from Tolis Group: https://www.tolisgroup.com/
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Archiware PresStore. It will do everything you’ve listed and is extremely Mac-friendly. CEO is really cool, too.
https://www.archiware.com/index.php?hp=122
JM
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I highly recommend ChronoSync if you’re Mac based and generally going disk-to-disk (and not involving LTO tapes).
https://www.econtechnologies.com/pages/cs/chrono_overview.html
Been using it for years to backup parts of our Xsan, and it is fantastic for the price point. Very simple and flexible with a great feature set. Sounds like a good fit for what you’re looking to do.
Happy to answer any questions about it, and good luck with your setup.
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Another two thumbs way up for Chronosync. Backs up our entire LAN as well as our SAN, to disk. It runs multiple backup scripts nightly and returns detailed reports via email each morning. Extremely friendly, reliable, smart and cheap. One of my favorite pieces of software! Went round and round with other, more complex and expensive backup scenarios. If you’re doing disk to disk it’s the way to go, in my opinion.
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