Best backup software?

[Chapin]

Can you guys please rate the best backup software for a single NT server.
Any one familiar with Novanet 8.5? Is it any good?

[Lowland]

Depends what you want to back up

We use SecondCopy 2000 for data backup, which is a very easy to use piece of kit, and will back up to multiple locations (hard drives), updating changed files, and can archive 2 or more copies to seperate locations.

You can try this for free, but I can't access the URL from this machine! so try asearch for it.

Good Luck

[jay015]

We use Veritas Backup Exec & it works great for us.
<a href="http://www.veritas.com/products/" target="_blank">http://www.veritas.com/products/</a>

[Cygnus]

[quote]We use Veritas Backup Exec & it works great for us.
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Ditto here.

[dmccartan]

Yep have to agree. Backup Exec is very good.

[Sunshine]

Backup Exec gets my vote also.

[Poseidon]

Same Here

[Wyckyd1]

Backup Exec is great however I am curious as to if you are just doing basic backups (i.e. All files on Harddrives, maybe exchange all to a tape device). If this is the case you can always use NT's native backup. You can schedule jobs, log jobs, stop and start services necessary to backup successfully such as Exchange services, etc.
Just a thought if it is just a basic HDD to tape backup.
ntbackup /? will show you what you can do with it and at /? will teach you how to schedule it.

Now don't get me wrong Backup Exec I believe has more options but if you are just doing basic backup you may be purchasing options you won't use. And if you grow and want centralized admin, backup to diff drives, etc you can always purchase.

That bland old NT native backup has saved many a days for many people so it does accomplish the basic needs for backup.