OT - Backing up Windows machines

[Les Mikesell]

Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 01:38:57PM -0400, aragonx at dcsnow.com wrote:
>> So, the question is, what is everyone else using to create images of their
>> machines?
> 
> Haven't bothered with images, but I have used CygWin + bash on the
> Win box to run MS Backup from an intelligent script to a Samba shared
> drive on the Linux box; with the recovery floppy, this has worked.
> (Script available on request.)
> 
> I've also used EMC (Dantz) Retrospect on the Win box to a Samba share.

If you want this all automated with compression and all duplicate files 
linked to save space and a nice web interface for browsing and restoring 
backups, look at http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/.  It doesn't do image 
copies but people have worked out ways to use MS backup for the system 
state to a file, then back that up with backuppc along with all the 
data. Backuppc can use tar, rsync or smb to access the targets.

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   Les Mikesell
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