(Offsite) Backup Strategy for several PCs with external HDD(s) but without Acronis Cloud

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Hello everybody,

I am an Acronis User with TIH and Backup & Recovery Advanced Products since many years.

It might be considered as old-school, but I am thinking about a good (Offsite) Backup Strategy without Acronis Cloud because of several reasons, in particular:
- (very) limited Internet Bandwidth
- onetime vs. yearly costs

Let's consider the following scenario: 2-3 Windows PCs, 1-2 external HDD(s).
- Basically the PCs should utilize the HDD of an other PC through a network share
- Appropriate Backup-Schema, depending on the actual Acronis Product (e.g. incremental/differential, GFS, Towers of Hanoi) should be performed
Now my question is:
What is the best strategy to replicate on a external HDD for manual Off-Site Backup?
I read many posts and advices inside this forum, but I could not find THE SOLUTION (to my point of view), since I am thinking about:
- using only 1 external HDD for all PCs of one site (e.g. via network share) but swapping this external HDD daily, weekly, ...
- Can it be performed with TIH or what are reasons why Backup & Revocery (Advanced) should be used?
- Can (and should) everything be done with Acronis software capabilities or would further scripts be necessary to support this?

Thank you for your feedback and advices!
MG

mar 10/02/2015 - 13:30
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MG,
I purchased a 3-system licence for True Image 2015, and installed it on 1 PC and 2 Laptops(mine, and wife's). I do not use network shares because of problems with windows homegroup and mixing windows 7 and 8. My main 'server' is windows 8.1, one laptop is windows 7, the other windows 8. I overcame the network share reliability issues by running a FTP server on my 'server' machine, and allowing the other machines to upload TI 2015 backup files via ftp. This schema works flawlessly once configured. The backup files are placed on an external WD 3TB drive with USB3 connection to the server. Since local bandwidth is not an issue (wireless N 450 throughout) and Gigabit wired ports on my routers) I use incremental daily backups on my wife's laptop with a full once per week. She mainly is a low activity user, browsing and playing solitaire type games. My laptop is wired .and wireless depending on where it is. Both options work equally well. My laptop is very active, so I do a full backup every 2-3 days(can't remember.. :( ) I have recently upgraded my server's C: drive with a newer one because the old drive had surface issues which could not be resolved. TI 2015 recreated the new partition flawlessly. The drive is an exact duplicate of the original, and it seems to be working fine. In your case, you could swap out the WD 3TB hd, and send it off site. However, TI 2015 may complain that backups are missing and create a new FULL version. This may not be to your liking if you chose to do incremental or differential backups. If your data volume is small, I recommend a FULL backup.

Further, I backup my 'my documents' folders on all machines daily, full, and I keep five iterations. This can be configured in TI 2015. You may consider other folders to have such importance, and configure separate backups for them. I backup my full Windows C: drive weekly, and keep 2 iterations also. And it has saved my bacon also!!

Hope this gives you some insight..
Regards
CCR

jeu 12/02/2015 - 18:21
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@ CC_Rider
I am intrigued by the idea of using FTP as appose to network shares to resolve reliability issues. It is worth testing.

@ MG
As far as Offsite backups,
If you going to manually swap external drives once every day/week for manual offsite backups, the best advice I have seen is here:
https://forum.acronis.com/forum/64634 GroverH has a lot of AWESOME tips and tutorials for ATI.
Also check out here:
https://forum.acronis.com/forum/3426
for other topics if you are interested.

Another solution I have thought about for myself, although it doesn't address the limited internet bandwidth, is the idea of asking a friend that lives across town, one that I trust and that would be willing, to "house" a separate storage device dedicated to storing my backups for me for my Offsite backups.
I.E. I could set up a computer at their house as a dedicated FTP server that only I would have access to, and I would, of course, send and store my backup files to that FTP server machine, or I could set up a network drive configured as an FTP server and do the same. Using a network drive might be a bit cheaper on electricity, considering it only needs to do one thing... be an FTP server that allows me to store my backup files offsite.
In either case, I my friend would leave the FTP server on and connected at all times and NOT access it themselves or otherwise mess with it as it would be dedicated Offsite storage device for my backups.
And.. Of course I would also be willing to do something in return, be it, also housing an Offsite storage device at my house for their backups, simply helping with their electric/internet service bill, or just buying them some Football tickets so they can watch the Seattle Seahawks win the next Super Bowl... like they really should have done this year!!! :)

Hope this helps!
Ryan A. Miller

ven 13/02/2015 - 10:15