periodic incremental backup software ?

[awallin]

Hi all,

I'm looking for something that could make periodic (every evening) incremental backups to a network drive (which I have mapped as say Z:)

Ideally the backups should happen autmatically when the network drive is connected, and in the background whenever the machine is idle.
For incremental backups I'd like to specify how often a complete backup is taken, this could also vary for different directories.

Any ideas and tips would be appreciated !

[teetee]

Your plateform?
I know nothing about the commercial software for backup your data. However, I know under linux, there is a script called plbackitup. With cron you can do exactly what you need for data backup through local, ftp, sftp. You probably want to use cron(tab)+smbclient or NFS+plbackitup through network if you dont want to set up ftp server.

For Windows I only know a program called FileSync. It does partically what CVS does(compare the timestamp on two files with same filename but doesn't do text-merging stuff, it simply overwrites the old stuff with the new stuff). It's sufficient for me to synchronize photos and personal files between my harddrive and my SD card but I don't think it does network stuff.

[tomh009]

For Windows I only know a program called FileSync. It does partically what CVS does(compare the timestamp on two files with same filename but doesn't do text-merging stuff, it simply overwrites the old stuff with the new stuff). It's sufficient for me to synchronize photos and personal files between my harddrive and my SD card but I don't think it does network stuff.

I use SyncBackSE. Works on both local and network drives, and can schedule tasks, too. But there are a bunch of these sync utilities out there, and depending on your preferences, a different one might work better for you. Google for "disk sync" or something similar ...