What's the most common method for backing up a server to NAS? I would imagine some variation of tar w/ cron jobs, but I haven't a clue how to get started. I would want to do full backups weekly with daily differentials (I guess). What would you do?

Come to think of it, I know Webmin has some easy to use backup config screens. Would this be my best bet?

I'm using Disksync now, but was looking to reduce my costs if possible.

Thanks,
Matt

Matt,

If you're using a control panel such as cPanel, it has a backup utility built in that works wonderfully with our NAS Backup product.

If you are using Windows, you can set up your NAS Backup storage area as a mapped drive, and utilize the Windows Backup utility that ships with every copy of Windows operating system. I assume this isn't the case, since you said you were thinking of using tar.

On UNIX/Linux, there are many ways you can use the system, and ultimately it's your decision as to which avenue you take.

I use NAS backup with my personal FreeBSD server, and I use some perl scripts and tar to make full backups of my important data, keeping 7 days of backups on the NAS. This may or may not work for you, depending on how much data you keep around.

On my Linux and Windows machines I use DiskSync, since it is vastly superior due to the nature of the software that drives that service.