At the office we have been re-evaluating our disaster recovery operations lately. Data backups are a big part of that, and we are having to re-think how we are tackling the issue. Up until now, since we are a software development company, we have written up a bunch of homegrown scripts to copy (rsync) file across the network and onto shared backup drives. This works well - for the most part - but I've grown tired of having to look at a script scrolling by. I want and need something more robust, but yet simple enough to be used by virtually everyone.
I took it upon myself to look around and see what's out there. There were several options that made sense, but they all either required a lot more management time than I would like, were slow when backing up over the network, or were not something I would bet the future of the company on. Further, none of them really had the features I wanted coupled with the simplicity I envisioned.
So, what is any self-respecting software development house supposed to do? Design and develop a solution that fits exactly what you need. We do this for our clients all the time, so it makes sense that we do it for ourselves too. So, this is the announcement that we will be releasing our simple backup utility (called SimplyTar File Backup) once we feel it is ready for public consumption. We've been using it internally for a while on production data and are adding the final polish for our customers.
We'll let everyone know when there's a public version ready for use.
