Re: Backup my kids computer over the internet?

> I use True Image 8. I do a full backup every Saturday night, then do
> incremental backups each night. These files are then backed up in the
> early AM to a computer in another part of the house that is used only
> for backup, so that I have redundancy. The house is alarmed and there
> is a fire alarm. Our fire station is 2 blocks away and our neighborhood
> pays extra to the city for additional patrols, resulting in an almost
> negligible theft rate in our area. So short of a fire that sweeps
> through our long home or forgetting to set the alarm and being robbed, I
> am covered fairly well. I do not have off-site redundancy, although I
> do have a removable SATA hdd that I may take to the office once a week.
> I don't want to be TOO compulsive.... ;-)

That you cannot do over Internet. You must be more selective it choosing
data files.

Setup home VPN server. Create shares on a storage PC for a backup purpose.
On remote PCs (your daughters), identify folders, which need to be backed up
("My Documents"). Then write a script which would connect to your VPN server
and copy changed files to your folders on a storage PC. You can use a time
stamp or better yet, application like "Second Copy 2000" to avoid copying
the same files again. Shutdown PC at the end. Schedule that script to run
every night and ask your daughters to leave PCs on, before they go to bed.

Actually you can do scheduling, VPN connecting and mapping drives using
"Second Copy 2000" advanced properties.

Give it a try.


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