I will start by saying what I have been using for desktop computers. I like the way Ghost 15 works. It lets me set the days of the week or month to back up and allows me to specify how many backups it saves and deletes the oldest backup image as it makes a new one.
If Ghost 15 would work on Windows 2003 Server, I would be well pleased.
What is there that is similar that will work on Windows 2003 Server?
Thanks, Dave, but this has to run in the background as a service on a schedule. The less user participation the better and the more likely it is to get done daily.
I am reading about Symantec Backup Exec and find prices ranging from way over a thousand dollars down to $32 which confuses me quite a bit.
What I want is an automated backup system installed on the server and which backs up (images) only the server on which it is installed and nothing else. There is no need to image systems across the network.
Way more than that a year and a half ago at one of my clients. By the time they bought a dedicated backup server, a dozen backup drives to start, the main Backup Exec program, all the Exchange/Database and Windows Agents, and the maintenance/support it was very costly but that's what you need when you backup over 2TB of data from 8 servers each weekend, several hundred gigs per night each weekday, and duplicate those full weekend backups to external media for local vault and long term offsite storage.
Thanks for all the help and comments. I finally had time to get back to this and it took quite some time for me to finally find that Active Disk Image Pro will allow a designation by the user as to how many backups to keep before deleting a backup each time a new one is made.
That was one of my large concerns.
I'll be trying/practicing with Active Disk Image Pro within the next few days.
Thanks again.
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