Backup software

[Artur Wolny]

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Dear ALL

I`m looking for a good software that automatically copy/move  old data
from a microscope`s computer to a online serwer.  We have a Leica, Zeiss
and Andor software on this machines.

Thank you for your help!

Best regards,
Artur Wolny

[Lloyd Donaldson]

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Artur

Western Digital offer a backup software for use with their external drives. I have only briefly used this but I recall you can set up automated backups and control what goes where. There is a free trial on their web site so you can evaluate. You can purchase the full software without having to buy one of their drives. Other HDD manufacturers may offer similar utilities. No commercial interest.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=260#Tab8


Regards


Dr Lloyd Donaldson
Microscopy & Wood Identification
Senior Scientist – Plant Cell Walls & Biomaterials
Scion – Forests, Products, Innovation
49 Sala Street, Rotorua 3010
New Zealand
Ph 07 343 5581
www.scionresearch.com



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Dear ALL

I`m looking for a good software that automatically copy/move  old data
from a microscope`s computer to a online serwer.  We have a Leica, Zeiss
and Andor software on this machines.

Thank you for your help!

Best regards,
Artur Wolny
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Hi Arthur,

Most "backup" utilities will not just copy the files; they will compress into their own format.  And they are designed primarily for local backups.  One exception that I was happy with for local backups, that copied the files as is (but not tested in network environment):
http://www.smartsync.com/

The "Windows 7 file copier" genre is what you are looking for, with web search results returning such hits:

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/software-reviews/tools-for-copying-many-files/

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/12-file-copy-software-tested-for-fastest-transfer-speed/view-all/

Hope that helps,
Jeff


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Artur

Western Digital offer a backup software for use with their external drives. I have only briefly used this but I recall you can set up automated backups and control what goes where. There is a free trial on their web site so you can evaluate. You can purchase the full software without having to buy one of their drives. Other HDD manufacturers may offer similar utilities. No commercial interest.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=260#Tab8


Regards


Dr Lloyd Donaldson
Microscopy & Wood Identification
Senior Scientist – Plant Cell Walls & Biomaterials Scion – Forests, Products, Innovation
49 Sala Street, Rotorua 3010
New Zealand
Ph 07 343 5581
www.scionresearch.com



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Dear ALL

I`m looking for a good software that automatically copy/move  old data from a microscope`s computer to a online serwer.  We have a Leica, Zeiss and Andor software on this machines.

Thank you for your help!

Best regards,
Artur Wolny
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For our lab,

the local image acquisition boxes (typically Windows machines) store data to a mounted network drive, which is located on a linux server set up with SSD’s - this data is backed up to a spinning disk server daily using custom rsync scripts

the spinning disk server is itself backed up to two other spinning disk servers again using rsync scripts (these are located in physically different locations)

the units themselves are running (typically) FreeNAS using ZFS so there is redundancy in case of drive failure

The only case for storage local to the actual workstation is for our SPIM rigs, in which case we use SSDs - those SSDs are backed up to the network server again using an rsync script under Cygwin


Chris


On Aug 23, 2016, at 4:46 PM, Reece, Jeff (NIH/NIDDK) [E] <[hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:

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Hi Arthur,

Most "backup" utilities will not just copy the files; they will compress into their own format.  And they are designed primarily for local backups.  One exception that I was happy with for local backups, that copied the files as is (but not tested in network environment):
http://www.smartsync.com/

The "Windows 7 file copier" genre is what you are looking for, with web search results returning such hits:

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/software-reviews/tools-for-copying-many-files/

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/12-file-copy-software-tested-for-fastest-transfer-speed/view-all/

Hope that helps,
Jeff


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Artur

Western Digital offer a backup software for use with their external drives. I have only briefly used this but I recall you can set up automated backups and control what goes where. There is a free trial on their web site so you can evaluate. You can purchase the full software without having to buy one of their drives. Other HDD manufacturers may offer similar utilities. No commercial interest.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=260#Tab8


Regards


Dr Lloyd Donaldson
Microscopy & Wood Identification
Senior Scientist – Plant Cell Walls & Biomaterials Scion – Forests, Products, Innovation
49 Sala Street, Rotorua 3010
New Zealand
Ph 07 343 5581
www.scionresearch.com



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From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Artur Wolny
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 9:27 PM
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Subject: Backup software

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Dear ALL

I`m looking for a good software that automatically copy/move  old data from a microscope`s computer to a online serwer.  We have a Leica, Zeiss and Andor software on this machines.

Thank you for your help!

Best regards,
Artur Wolny
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[Mason, David [dnmason]]

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For me, the best overall solution is (as other people have suggested) using command-line tools and scripting.

For linux / mac, it's RSYNC
for Windows it's ROBOCOPY

Both have extensive logging options, control of permissions/ownership and most importantly, are interruptible (so they will pick up where they left off) which is essential for big imaging files.

Dave
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For our lab,

the local image acquisition boxes (typically Windows machines) store data to a mounted network drive, which is located on a linux server set up with SSD’s - this data is backed up to a spinning disk server daily using custom rsync scripts

the spinning disk server is itself backed up to two other spinning disk servers again using rsync scripts (these are located in physically different locations)

the units themselves are running (typically) FreeNAS using ZFS so there is redundancy in case of drive failure

The only case for storage local to the actual workstation is for our SPIM rigs, in which case we use SSDs - those SSDs are backed up to the network server again using an rsync script under Cygwin


Chris


On Aug 23, 2016, at 4:46 PM, Reece, Jeff (NIH/NIDDK) [E] <[hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:

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Hi Arthur,

Most "backup" utilities will not just copy the files; they will compress into their own format.  And they are designed primarily for local backups.  One exception that I was happy with for local backups, that copied the files as is (but not tested in network environment):
http://www.smartsync.com/

The "Windows 7 file copier" genre is what you are looking for, with web search results returning such hits:

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/software-reviews/tools-for-copying-many-files/

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/12-file-copy-software-tested-for-fastest-transfer-speed/view-all/

Hope that helps,
Jeff


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Artur

Western Digital offer a backup software for use with their external drives. I have only briefly used this but I recall you can set up automated backups and control what goes where. There is a free trial on their web site so you can evaluate. You can purchase the full software without having to buy one of their drives. Other HDD manufacturers may offer similar utilities. No commercial interest.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=260#Tab8


Regards


Dr Lloyd Donaldson
Microscopy & Wood Identification
Senior Scientist – Plant Cell Walls & Biomaterials Scion – Forests, Products, Innovation
49 Sala Street, Rotorua 3010
New Zealand
Ph 07 343 5581
www.scionresearch.com



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From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Artur Wolny
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 9:27 PM
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Subject: Backup software

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Dear ALL

I`m looking for a good software that automatically copy/move  old data from a microscope`s computer to a online serwer.  We have a Leica, Zeiss and Andor software on this machines.

Thank you for your help!

Best regards,
Artur Wolny
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[Martin Spitaler-2]

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Dear Artur,

  I have tried many options in the past, but not wanting to get stuck in proprietary formats there is limited choice. In my experience, by far the best solution even comes for free: Personal Backup (http://personal-backup.rathlev-home.de/index-e.html). First and foremost, it stores the backup in the format of your choice (original or ZIP with or without encryption). But it also lets you customise everything, from date range (older than...) to scheduling (daily, weekly, full, incremental, ...), uses any destination including FTP servers, you can exclude locations and file types, keep or delete the files at origin and much more. You can also use it in command line mode, but I have not tried (needed) that so far. No personal connection, just a happy user.

Best,

Martin

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[WAINWRIGHT James]

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Hi Artur,

[No commercial interest either as a system vendor nor involved with the software - just personal use]

If your requirements are fairly straightforward and you are Windows-based, I've had good experience with SyncBack:

http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/syncback-hub.html

I use the free version for all of my personal backup / mirroring needs. There are more advanced versions available too.

It seems to be very fast and no need to use proprietary file formats - it simply copies or mirrors from one location to another with simple or advanced rules. I've used it for everything from MP4 library backups (1000's of ~10MB files) to several large (~5GB) single files. I've not yet had need for  ~100 GB or TB files though...

James

James Wainwright
Global Applications Specialist - Microscopy Systems
Andor Technology


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For me, the best overall solution is (as other people have suggested) using command-line tools and scripting.

For linux / mac, it's RSYNC
for Windows it's ROBOCOPY

Both have extensive logging options, control of permissions/ownership and most importantly, are interruptible (so they will pick up where they left off) which is essential for big imaging files.

Dave
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For our lab,

the local image acquisition boxes (typically Windows machines) store data to a mounted network drive, which is located on a linux server set up with SSD's - this data is backed up to a spinning disk server daily using custom rsync scripts

the spinning disk server is itself backed up to two other spinning disk servers again using rsync scripts (these are located in physically different locations)

the units themselves are running (typically) FreeNAS using ZFS so there is redundancy in case of drive failure

The only case for storage local to the actual workstation is for our SPIM rigs, in which case we use SSDs - those SSDs are backed up to the network server again using an rsync script under Cygwin


Chris


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Hi Arthur,

Most "backup" utilities will not just copy the files; they will compress into their own format.  And they are designed primarily for local backups.  One exception that I was happy with for local backups, that copied the files as is (but not tested in network environment):
http://www.smartsync.com/

The "Windows 7 file copier" genre is what you are looking for, with web search results returning such hits:

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/software-reviews/tools-for-copying-many-files/

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/12-file-copy-software-tested-for-fastest-transfer-speed/view-all/

Hope that helps,
Jeff


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Artur

Western Digital offer a backup software for use with their external drives. I have only briefly used this but I recall you can set up automated backups and control what goes where. There is a free trial on their web site so you can evaluate. You can purchase the full software without having to buy one of their drives. Other HDD manufacturers may offer similar utilities. No commercial interest.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=260#Tab8


Regards


Dr Lloyd Donaldson
Microscopy & Wood Identification
Senior Scientist - Plant Cell Walls & Biomaterials Scion - Forests, Products, Innovation
49 Sala Street, Rotorua 3010
New Zealand
Ph 07 343 5581
www.scionresearch.com



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From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Artur Wolny
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 9:27 PM
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Subject: Backup software

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Dear ALL

I`m looking for a good software that automatically copy/move  old data from a microscope`s computer to a online serwer.  We have a Leica, Zeiss and Andor software on this machines.

Thank you for your help!

Best regards,
Artur Wolny
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