Home Network backup software requirement

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DjStyles

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Hi guys & gals,

I'm desperately needing a backup solution for all the machines I have at home on the network.
What I am hoping is that I can load software on my desktop (where everything will be stored) in my office to manage everything and potentially just a client of sorts onto the other machines.
Currently I have 5 laptops and 2 PC's on the network.

I'm a complete NOOB at this so any assistance and guidelines would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
 
I am using this in 3Tb form:

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1140

Works well, although the interface can be a bit buggy. It comes with some 1990's software, which you can set up to monitor a couple of folders, which updates to the NAS every time you change a file in the directory.

Has a horrid personal cloud feature, where you can access the files on the NAS remotely - useless if you don't have fiber at home.

Seagate has something similar, but this was the cheapest.
 
Fwiw, there's a WD Red drive in those My cloud devices. Those hard drives were designed to run in Raid environments and network attached storage in small home and small office setups. They are not run of the mill desktop drives.
 
mintydroid said:
Fwiw, there's a WD Red drive in those My cloud devices. Those hard drives were designed to run in Raid environments and network attached storage in small home and small office setups. They are not run of the mill desktop drives.
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Good to know! At least it has some decent hardware behind it. Works really well, but the software really needs an update. I see it can do some sort of change tracking though, storing a version for each change, which is nice I guess.

DjStyles said:
Thanks for the info, but I was hoping for a simple software solution I can deploy.
Any ideas?
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Uhm, no clue - but I think you will find some freeware if you don't have too many requirements
 
Can try out Cobian backup, works very well. Has an insane amount of features for a program thats 100% free, heck wouldnt be surprised if it has more features than software you have to buy
 
If you have a central PC with enough storage where you would store it all on then I highly recommend Crashplan free option.

It can even backup over the internet if it's a roaming laptop for instance.


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Oh I see you got it already.
 
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