Have now tried all the freely available backup options that I can find for sme and not one of them can do a full backup and send it off site via FTP. This is very frustrating.
Dar2 doesnt work properly, cant send backup offsite via ftp and wont login to local work-group computers or my local ritmo workgroup server.
Plain dar doesnt have ftp ability and wont login to my local ritmo work-group server. also doesn't do full backup of all databases or allow any options of what to backup
BackupPC is the only one that makes a full and complete backup but it also misses the mark by not having any ability to send the backup off site via ftp and also wont sent files off via the local work-group or ritmo lan server.
The standard built in backup also has NO FTP and wont login to my local work-group computers or the ritmo lan server and simply doesn't do a full backup.
It seems that dungog has cornered the market in that he is the only person who had the brains to include ftp in his backup options. Unfortunately at $300 or $1000 I cant afford to purchase anything he has to offer and that realy sux.
I doesn't mean to be cynical but cum on people this is pathetic. FTP should be a standard option on all backup software.
Why call it backup when it doesn't do as the name suggests. Backup is for data recovery when everything goes stupid. Its an emergency procedure and if the backup doesn't capture all thats needed to fully restore the server back to how it was prior to the disaster then plain and simple it ain't worth having. If all its doing is backing up the config then its just stupid and worthless.
After two weeks of trial and error with all the available backup options I am very disappointed as I have not achieved a reasonable integrated solution.
My only current solution is to use BackupPC to create the files and to then use something like "cobian backup 8" to ftp the files off site on a regular schedule. At least cobian can do differentials and incremental on the backed up files.
To All developers
Please include FTP as part of any backup options for all future versions of SME server and associated backup systems. It may not be the (technically) best way to backup but I guarantee that it will always work where other options fall down.
PS I also have issues with USB not working on older hardware and it doesn't solve the issue of storing backups OFF SITE.
Thanks
Steve
