Backup software

[Luca Leonardo Scorcia]

Hi! This time I'm looking for a simple but powerful backup software for my dev box. It should offer options to copy to some location (Network drive or user-specified folder) the following items: o) Documents folder for each user o) Favorites folder for each user o) MS-SQL databases + users and permissions o) MySql databases + users and permissions o) IIS settings o) Outlook 2003 and Outlook Express folders, rules and contacts o) User specified folder trees Do you have anything to suggest?

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[James R Twine]

ntbackup can do this, and it is available on most Win32 platforms above Win9_x_/me.    It will require some manual configuration because you have to select the paths you want to backup, but hey! - what do you want for free? :)    Peace!

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For that purpose I use Winzip command line version, a batch file and windows scheduled tasks. For the ms sql database same thing roughly only a command that executes automatically prior to the batch file zip and copy.

[Vasudevan Deepak Kumar]

UltimateZip should do the job for you. I have a brief review here: http://lavanyadeepak.blogspot.com/2007/01/ultimatezip-ultimate-desktop-utility.html[^]

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[Ravi Bhavnani]

EZBackup[^] :) The price is hard to beat and I believe it will do everything you've mentioned. /ravi

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[Orcrist]

I am rather partial to Cobian Backup http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm[^] It backs up the files into a standard zip format but you can encrypt both the zip file as well as encrypt the entire backup file in some pretty decent algorithms. In other words it is not a proprietary backup. It also supports pre-and post backup events so you can shut down SQL server or execute a stored procedure batch file or any number of different things. If you like to encrypt the backup file, then you can also store the backup file along with the decryption applet (small). That ensures that years from now you can always restore the files with or without Cobian installed on the machine. Essentially you can decrypt the file and then use standard winzip (or other) to access the files. It's a beauty and free/donation. Cheers, David