I am trying to figure out the best way to handle backups at my office.
We have about 50GB worth of files on our file server that need backed up, as well as a couple of databases, one is about 1GB the other 13GB.
The backups need to be often enough and complete enough to actually be useful, but they shouldn't be done so often that it interferes with file access (from the server being bogged down by multiple instances backup/zip utilities running), plus if files are in use they'll be skipped by most backup utilities.
We also have full image backups of each of our servers being done every weekend.
All of our backups are stored on a NAS device which has four 1.8TB hard drives in two RAID 1 arrays.
To better utilize the storage I'd like to do incremental or differential backups throughout the week and only do full backups on the weekends.
We have...