looking for an automated backup solution

[bearsquarterly]

Hello! so i have two PCs: one runs Plex and stores all of my media files. the other is acting as a NAS, which holds a backup of said media files on it, so i have two copies of the files. both PCs are currently running Windows 10.

 

when i download new media files to put on the Plex PC, i manually make a copy of those new media files to the NAS PC.

what i would like to happen, is have some software or something that will periodically scan for new files/changes on Plex PC media folder and copy them over to NAS PC media back up folder.

is there some software that can do this? thanks!

[Tusk2435]

1 minute ago, bearsquarterly said:

Hello! so i have two PCs: one runs Plex and stores all of my media files. the other is acting as a NAS, which holds a backup of said media files on it, so i have two copies of the files. both PCs are currently running Windows 10.

 

when i download new media files to put on the Plex PC, i manually make a copy of those new media files to the NAS PC.

what i would like to happen, is have some software or something that will periodically scan for new files/changes on Plex PC media folder and copy them over to NAS PC media back up folder.

is there some software that can do this? thanks!

Hi, welcome to the forum!
I personally use BackupPC on my home server: depending on your client (PC that needs to be backed up) OS, you may not even need a client application, as it uses rsync to copy the data. There is a linuxserver docker image available, or you could just manually self-host it. The configuration UI is a bit ugly, but it is one of the most configurable open source backup solutions that I know of. If you read the documentation or read a couple guides, you should be up and running in half an hour.
Be aware that this software uses a pool: you should not try to access or manipulate its backup pool folder manually, but only through its web-based browser. It uses compression and deduplication and all that good stuff.

[bearsquarterly]

26 minutes ago, LionSpeck said:

Hi, welcome to the forum!
I personally use BackupPC on my home server: depending on your client (PC that needs to be backed up) OS, you may not even need a client application, as it uses rsync to copy the data. There is a linuxserver docker image available, or you could just manually self-host it. The configuration UI is a bit ugly, but it is one of the most configurable open source backup solutions that I know of. If you read the documentation or read a couple guides, you should be up and running in half an hour.
Be aware that this software uses a pool: you should not try to access or manipulate its backup pool folder manually, but only through its web-based browser. It uses compression and deduplication and all that good stuff.

i will look into this! thank you for your help!

[Anghammarad]

Or look at some of O&O's products... they have some nifty not so expensive tools as well for backups.