Remote backups

[djpope15]

Good afternoon.
I want to add a remote backup section for businesses in my company. I know the typical ways to do backups:

-Go to each company with a physical hard drive and do it.

-Connect remotely at the end of the day with the Team viewer program for example and do them computer by computer.

And surely there are more out there… but what I want is for it to be simple. Although the person is working with the computer, the backup is done and they don't need me to connect to their computer remotely.

Like for example a script that copies to me at the time I want all the folders that I indicate to a remote server that I will have in my company.

Does anyone have any ideas to help me?... I had also heard something about cloud backup

[lforos]

I suppose you are not looking for something professional. In this sense, there are several options.

Depending on what you are looking to do, one possibility would be to have a file server that stores your backups that is accessible to all remote computers you want to back up. You could have, for example, a shared folder for each computer and grant permissions to a specific user in their folder exclusively and thus prevent users of one computer from accessing another's folder.

On the client PCs, you can mount a solution like Cobian Backup. The advantages of this product are that it allows you to back up to a network drive (the server from before), that it can encrypt the backups (which gives you security) and that it uses Volume Shadow Copy, that is, it can back up even if the user is working. It allows all types of backups (full, incremental, differential, etc.).

Obviously, any solution requires that the computer to be backed up is turned on. In the case of Cobian, if it is not, at the first moment it starts up, it will do the pending copies.

Surely there are other similar products, but this is the one I have been using for years and it has worked very well for me.

This is a possible solution, but there are many possibilities depending on what you intend and what you have available.

[djpope15]

And when it comes to telling the remote computer to back up to my company's server, would it be better to get a fixed IP address or assign a DNS to my IP address?

[lforos]

I think it's irrelevant for this type of service. With DynDNS or similar, you can easily abstract the address (if your router supports it). Having a fixed IP is more convenient and isn't expensive.

However, keep in mind that with the solution I mentioned (and following what you've done in the other branch for the server), it implies that your storage server has to be visible on the network permanently, which makes security more complex.