It would indeed be ideal if the automatic AC backup feature would indeed compress files enough so that doing a daily entire backup would be feasible. Then one could automatically back up all of AC to all of those different sites you denoted with just a single click.
The AC Backup will compress the file. But, not even $1,000 backup programs can compress 30GB files especially PDFs and JPEGS, which are already highly compressed. I just backed up 20GBs in under 10 minutes to three different locations. I am not quite sure why ACBU should be able to compress huge amounts of data. It can, but if it is a lot of data, it takes a lot of time to back up. That is just the long and short of it.
I am also at a loss as to why one would want to back up to multiple locations at the same time.
Right now BackupAssist backs up all of my AC and my PM and my received faxes as well as other critical folders to my tape drive. That requires one set up. Then AC requires another set-up and Mozey yet another.
There you go. Why do you even need AC's backup if you are backing everything else anywhere. You are referring to just one click, but do you expect AC's backup program to back up your entire server? Of course not. So, we all have to do multiple clicks and backups if we want to do modular backups such as AC. I do two auto backups a night of my server, but I still do the quick AC backup of my data minutes the imported items. But, what is lost in all my ranting, is that if you are backing up locally, you CAN back up imported items.
The thing is it is nice to have multiple backups of your databases as they can become corrupted or have other issues given the complexity of SQL server. Your imported items are pictures and PDFs and Tiffs. They can be backed up by copy and paste.
Leslie, are you zipping all of your files on your server, etc.? I am confused. And, yes, when a PM program comes out, AC will not be able to back everything up. My eMedware program has its own built in backup program, but it only backs up eMedware.
