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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.
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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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