Home Server File Backup Solution

[Vicariously]

Hi Everyone, I am still very new to networking and home server stuff and was hoping I could get some advice or pointers, (the biggest problem is I don't know what terminology I should be using so it's making research more difficult).

 

I have a spare PC I am using as a PLEX server and also using it to share network folders to the PCs on my home network. I intend to eventually switch to a platform like UnRaid that's a little bit more specialized, but need spare time before I can 100% commit. The specs of the spare pc are still fairly modern I7 4790k 32gb RAM so performance shouldn't be a limiting factor.

 

What I am trying to do is have software on my main PC (and if I can get it on my  phone too that would be awesome) that will backup my files. I want them to be backed up to the server pc in the same directory structure they are on the device that they are being backed up from. If they can be organized on the server by device that's a bonus. Versioning and file history copies aren't a huge concern because I am doing this more or less for redundancy and as an alternative to purchasing a cloud backup solution subscription. 

 

I want the software to make changes to the backup directory on the server based on changes I have made on the device.

 

For example if I add files to a folder on my main PC, they are copied to the server, and if I delete some from a folder on my main pc, the software removes them from the backup location.

 

Someone once said "why don't you just work out of the network location all the time", but as I said this is about data redundancy and I don't want to have to constantly delete the same file in 2 different locations.

 

I am not looking for something that backs up entire system images.

 

Anyone have any advice for me? 

 

Thanks!

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

How about veeam? They have a free server version so you can give it the ip and login for a system and it will do backups for the system.

 

Id really suggest doing images as it makes a hdd replcaement much easier.

 

You can also just make a network share in windows and copy the files over.

[Vicariously]

Those aren't quite what I'm looking for but thanks

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

44 minutes ago, Vicariously said:

Those aren't quite what I'm looking for but thanks

 

If you want more sync software, look at something like nextcloud