Backing up several Windows machines to a Linux server

Michael Yep myep at remotelink.com
Sat Jan 22 00:54:12 UTC 2005


Well for snapshots i use Nortan Ghost and then transfer the inages to linux 
vis ssh, or you can burn then to dvds
Ghost gives you bit for bit copies and compresses the data

At 05:19 PM 1/21/2005, you wrote:
>Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
>
>>Hi:
>>I am faced with what *must* be a very common task: to make backups of
>>user files on several Windows machines to the hard disk of a Linux
>>server. So far I've only been responsible for backing up the servers,
>>and rsync/rsnapshot plus mondo do a beautiful job of that.
>>However, I am finding it a little difficult to find software that does
>>this well. I do prefer to support open-source if at all possible, and I
>>do prefer zero-cost as this is a small office; but I am able and willing
>>to pay for software as long as the cost is reasonable.
>>Here's what I've done so far:
>>         1. Amanda (http://www.amanda.org) only seems to do backups to tape,
>>yuck! I definitely want to back up to a hard drive: much faster and much
>>cheaper, and I can then replicate the data store and take it home on my
>>notebook. :-) At most we will have 10GB or 20GB of backups, not
>>terabytes or anything huge.
>>         2. Given that the clients are Windows and I need to automate backups
>>(else they'll never get done), I don't see how I can use rsync and/or
>>similar tools since they don't run on that OS. It seems to me that I
>>need some sort of a client app on Windows that will push the backups to
>>the server. Happy to be corrected if wrong, of course.
>>         3. Bacula (http://www.bacula.org) *looks* pretty complete, but 
>> it also
>>looks pretty confusing and complex to set up. It also speaks of
>>difficulties backing up Windows clients. Not very attractive at first
>>sight... does anyone know if it gets easier/nicer later?
>>         4. Arkeia (http://www.arkeia.com) seems to do the trick. Clients 
>> for a
>>lot of operating systems, server runs on Linux, even has plug-ins for
>>backing up LDAP, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and others. Waiting for a price
>>quote from them now, hopefully it will be affordable.
>>Can I get some help/recommendations here? Any five-star products I've
>>missed? Especially any really good, pretty cheap ones?
>>Cheers,
>Rodolfo,
>         For rsync on win you might want to try cwrsync at
>http://www.itefix.no/
>
>         You might also want to look at backuppc at
>http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
>
>I have used cwrsync on win file servers to allow easy rsyncing to linux 
>servers.  I haven't played with backuppc much, but it is popular with some 
>people on the K12LTSP list.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dale
>
>
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