NAS Backup System for Small Business

[KnightRider89]

I'm looking to setup a backup system for a small business with 8 computers. Preferably, the system would backup the computers image to a NAS drive each night, and store it for at least 7 days before overwriting the oldest image.

I'm considering the Synology NAS (DS1515+) with True Image 2016. Does anyone have any thoughts/recommendations on a solution.

Thanks!

 

[kanewolf]

You are wasting A LOT of time and space by doing a full image backup every night. MOST files don't change. I would recommend having a basic system image for each model of computer. Maybe you do end up with multiple images if the hardware is very dissimilar (HP, Dell, homemade...). That will be what you can use to create a new system disk for each host.

Then do a full backup of all non-system directories on each computer every TWO weeks. You can rotate which day in the two week cycle the full backup happens so no two hosts are doing full backups at the same time.
In between full backups you do daily incremental backups (the files that have changed since the last full backup). These should be fairly small.

If a host completely dies, then the golden system image is installed. Then the full backup and all the incrementals. You are basically back to yesterday ...