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Help me design a Local and Remote Backup System for a Client

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I have a client with the following backup requirements.

What the client has:

  • Client has 30 PCs on LAN and 10 Laptops on the field with rudimentary internet access via 3G USB Sticks, all running various flavours of windows.
  • main site has active directory on Windows 2003 servers and a dedicated 512kbps internet connection.
  • files to be backed up include MS Office docs, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, CAD drawings, and Outlook PST files (they use POP3).
  • size vary from a few KB to15 GB for PST files.

What the clients wants:

  1. All files in the main office to be backed up incrementally on a daily basis from each workstation to a NAS device on the LAN.
  2. PST files and other large files should be delta-backed up, to save time and bandwidth (LAN).
  3. Further, smaller files ( MS Office, PDFs, Accounting, CAD etc) have to be backed up daily to a different NAS device located at a remote office, either separately or replicated from first NAS device.
  4. Also, the client wants larger file (PSTs, Videos, Audio etc) to be backed up manually from the local NAS and stored offsite on a weekly or monthly basis).
  5. Users on the field should be able to backup small files from the field to the first NAS in the main office.

Note:the internet bandwidth we have available is only 500 kbps (we are in Tanzania where internet is still very expensive).

Can one of you experts please advise how I should go about achieving these goals. Which is the best (inexpensive) software i can use?


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