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After my one and only hard drive in my 2006 PC build crashed a fiery death in June 2009, I vowed to never be without a backup solution ever again. My PC now has 2 internal HDD's, and I have one 1TB external HDD on my desk that use for backups. I purchased Acronis True Image 2009, but after 2 years of using it, it has proved itself to be a massive failure.
None of my HDD's have actually failed as of yet, but the way Acronis creates backups is just ridiculous. I set daily incrementals and weekly full backups, and even though I have it set to consolidate those incrementals every so often, it simply fills the entire 1 TB HDD space after a couple of months with subsequent backup attempts failing. So then I'm forced to delete backup archives every so often just to free up space, at the risk of losing data before the next backup is completed.
I'm pretty well fed up with Acronis and am now considering something open-source since I'd rather not have to pay hard-earned money a 2nd time for something that should have worked the 1st time. I have done a bit of searching and have heard of "Amanda" open source backup software, and also Bacula. Are either of these good or should I go with something else?
At my office we use a combination of Symantec Backup Exec (which works awesome) and a couple of incremental and full backup Robocopy script files to essentially create about 5 layers of protection. I've thought about just using robocopy scripts but I figured actual backup software might be able to do a better job of consolidating and removing old, outdated backup archives in order to preserve HDD free space.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
None of my HDD's have actually failed as of yet, but the way Acronis creates backups is just ridiculous. I set daily incrementals and weekly full backups, and even though I have it set to consolidate those incrementals every so often, it simply fills the entire 1 TB HDD space after a couple of months with subsequent backup attempts failing. So then I'm forced to delete backup archives every so often just to free up space, at the risk of losing data before the next backup is completed.
I'm pretty well fed up with Acronis and am now considering something open-source since I'd rather not have to pay hard-earned money a 2nd time for something that should have worked the 1st time. I have done a bit of searching and have heard of "Amanda" open source backup software, and also Bacula. Are either of these good or should I go with something else?
At my office we use a combination of Symantec Backup Exec (which works awesome) and a couple of incremental and full backup Robocopy script files to essentially create about 5 layers of protection. I've thought about just using robocopy scripts but I figured actual backup software might be able to do a better job of consolidating and removing old, outdated backup archives in order to preserve HDD free space.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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