Fog as a backup tool?

[hariskar]

I want to take full backups of 5 Windows 10/11 PCs at work using an open source project. I intend to schedule the backups between late night and morning before we open. I want to take backup of my main PC every night and backups of the rest PCs eg once a week.
I was using fog according to this scenario many years ago without any problem.

Why is it not suggested to use fog as a backup tool? Everyone suggests Clonezilla. Isn’t fog like an automated Clonzilla without the need of manual backups using a usb stick regarding the backup function?

Thank you!

[heix75]

Don’t mess up system backup and data backup!

Why you want to backup entire machine daily?

If you have important data in the PC, backup this data only!

Even better - build your infrastructure in this way, that the important data is not in the users PC. Set up network fileserver/NAS or other storage, cloud etc and keep your important files there - via automatic script or other method!
Of course the fileserver/NAS should be backup’ed as well - but most likely those will already include some failsafe methods (RAID etc.) in case of disk fail.

If PC fails, then replace the PC, deploy ready-to-use system image (with all your important software) and reconnect to the fileserver/data source. Thats it!

This way you have the flexibility (to restore even single file only - not entire PC) and it is also cost effective.

[hariskar]

@heix75 Thanks a lot for reply!
I use a medical lab program that stores clients data and examinations results almost all day. Of course I take incremental SQL backups.
So if something breaks I would like to have a recent PC backup to only restore SQL.
I used Macrium for that and now I use UrBackup which is open source but not widely used and I wonder if Fog would be a better solution.