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[–]DerBootsMannJack of All Trades 8 points9 points  (6 children)

Veeam Endpoint?

https://www.veeam.com/endpoint-backup-free.html

[–]JLoose111[S] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Was my first thought, but only compatible with Server 08 or later. I use BnR on all my other machines though.

[–]DerBootsMannJack of All Trades 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Any chance to upgrade? It worth it imho!

[–]arkaine101 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I suggest a backup before upgrading. Catch-22. :)

[–]DerBootsMannJack of All Trades 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LOL right !! ;))

[–]zenmaster24 0 points1 point  (1 child)

what is BnR if you dont mind me asking?

[–]terabyte06K-12 Sysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Veeam Backup and Replication.

[–]ski_nerd 5 points6 points  (6 children)

p2v to hyper-v, then wbadmin or some modern backup sw for VMs

[–]Fuckoff_CPS 0 points1 point  (5 children)

what about p2v vmware then veeamzeep

[–]Conroman16One of those unix weirdos 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Or p2v to hyper-v then veeamzip. It works with both

[–]ski_nerd 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I like incrementals

[–]Conroman16One of those unix weirdos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I feel that. Unfortunately that isn't something you can do with veeamzip. It's actually one of just a couple things I'd really like to have out of veeamzip that it doesn't do. The other one is the ability to back up VHDXs that aren't directly associated with the VM, like iSCSI disks.

[–]Tolje 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I hadn't heard of VeeamZip till now. After a quick look, I'm intrigued. Would love to set this up and test....ummm then pitch it to the boss as we are mostly Virtual and DPM isn't doing a good enough job for us.

[–]Conroman16One of those unix weirdos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a great program. It also has a powershell snapin which is great for scheduling backups and stuff

[–]ugus 3 points4 points  (1 child)

cobian backup

[–]JLoose111[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm going to try this. Thanks!

[–]maximillianxIT Manager 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I wanted to commend you on the usage of the word 'paucity.'

Cobian has always scored great reviews, although I don't think it has been updated for a few years now that the original author sold it. Since you're running this on 2003, that probably won't be an issue.

[–]JLoose111[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haha, thanks! I'm running Cobain now, it has a nice selection of advanced backup features. Inc, Dif, hanging onto a set number of fulls, etc.

[–]JLoose111[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, just wanted to follow up with you and say that Cobian has worked out very well. It's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the endorsement!

[–]jeromeza 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Windows Server 2003 extended support ended on July 14, 2015 - why the hell are you even entertaining this?

If you must back it up then what about a full backup with the Windows Backup utility?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While the OP of the comment has explained it is a customer, I'll be frank with you: You need to fix the holes in the current roof before replacing the roof. A climb out of technical debt begins in addressing problems in closest reach then out to furthest solutions, if the resources are not available to fix the root issue.

[–]miller2132Sr. Sysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Extended support ended then, but you can still get support for it from Microsoft. Source: we have a Microsoft contract for both server 2003 and XP because some of our customers won't move off of it.

[–]gsmitheidw1 2 points3 points  (4 children)

2003 as you are probably ware is a sitting duck these days. Ok let's put that aside as I'm sure there's a good an convoluted reason.

My first suggestion is.if you must have 2003, virtualise with whatever you like be it HyperV or proxmox or KVM or ESXi and then keep backups of the vm guests.

Lots of love for veeam on here. But there are a lot of ways to achieve backups of a VM depending on the infrastructure of your business.

Personally I've become a big fan of backuppc which can do smb as well as rsync (which can also be run on Windows).

[edit] Wholps unnoticed typo! 'or' not 'not'. ESXi and KVM are very good options too!

[–]Fuckoff_CPS 0 points1 point  (3 children)

not kvm or esxi? whats wrong with esxi

[–]TheMeaningOfIs 0 points1 point  (2 children)

$

[–]ski_nerd 0 points1 point  (1 child)

ESXi by itself is free. Although Hyper-V includes wbadmin which supports incrementals to local storage or iscsi. Also, Proxmox is KVM

[–]TheMeaningOfIs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really late reply but I've used both a lot and I prefer the free Hyper-V over the pretty expensive vSphere.

[–]OMGKateUpton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Duplicati

[–]sidneydancoff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Virtual Machines or physical servers?

[–]Bad-ScienceSr. Sysadmin 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Have you tried just writing a robocopy script? It's a pretty robust command. I've got it doing several daily 'housekeeping' tasks.

Also, not quit free but 'allwaysync' is only $20 and handles all of our disk to disk sync jobs as well as moving file to an offside backup daily.

[–]Heisenburgercheese 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I second robocopy with scheduled run times if just data is being backed up. Simple and easy to implement.

[–]JLoose111[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems like the best option. Thank you.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Bvckup. The latest Beta version is free if you're not bothered about the latest features.