Windows 10: Tape backup software

What are current recommendations for this please? I use an Ultrium-4 drive on a server and iSCSI connection from a booted CD to take image backups of all the machines here at home, but dd isn't the best of backup utilities *Smile

I can't afford a PetaByte disk array so please don't suggest disk-disk backup.

Oh yes, I can't afford Symantec BackupExec or similar ... Freeware preferred, reasonably priced shareware also good.

Thanks
David

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Multiple "File History" volumes?

Greetings,

Back in the mainframe days, one alternated three backup volumes, i.e., magnetic tapes.

In this way, if a backup volume failed, one could recover most of the data using the previously-created backup and minimize data loss.

For example: Monday-DriveA, Tuesday-DriveB, Wednesday-DriveC, Thursday-DriveA, Friday-DriveB, Saturday-DriveC, Sunday-DriveA, Monday-DriveB, ....

With File History enabled in Windows 10, can one successfully attach a different external disk each day?

If not, I'd welcome suggestions of Backup/Restore software which supported alternating volumes.

 

tape to

Hi,

To better assist you, we would like to know more about "Tape to add child add".

Regards.

 

Try uranium-backup.com i use it for NAS backups. Haven't used it for tapes though.

 

I looked at that, but sadly the free version doesn't have tape support *Sad. The tape version costs €150 for the 1st license (I need at least 4).

 

You might have to get past the desire for free and venture into the land of pay-for (multi-computers pack are common). Research for tape-friendly software and do as many of us have done -- get a multi-computer pack license for a program that performs rock-solid, error-free, and the restores indeed -- restore.