A while ago, I backed up entire "My Documents" (which was over 2GB) directory in Windows to a Linux using unison - which is a rsync like (but better than rsync in my experience) utility which is available for both Windows and Linux (No need to install Cygwin). Download it from http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Install unison on windows machine and also on linux machine. Then on Windows machine, start a unison server from a command line and on a linux machine just use the unison GUI - it is pretty painless process. If you run into troubles, make sure you use the same version of unison on both machines. Unison also supports ssh if that is what you need. Unison is very useful for recurring backups. On subsequent backups, unison (like rysnc) only backs up the data that has changed. There is more documentation on unison's page if you want more info. Osho On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 20:09:17 +0200, Hugo <hg.list@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi!
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:11:31 +0100, jalal <the_jalal@fastmail.fm> wrote:
I have a client who is using Windows XP and wants to backup his files (preferably automatically) to my Linux server.
- Use samba to mount a suitable dir for the XP computer
- Use WinXP built-in backup software to take the backup
- it is easy to setup: graphical selection of files
- can be easily automated from the same GUI
- could actually be scripted... well the scheduling actually works by running scripts...
- Take the backups to a file on the samba share.
You could actually make 2 backups for alternating days and different files. WindowsXP backup is very good. It can even use shadow volume system to back up open files. It does not do compression how ever.
If you want compression:
- Get WinZip or another zip-tool that can be run from command line.
- Construct a bat-file (that's script for linux guys :-) for running it with suitable parameters and files.
- Point the outputfile to the samba share
This probably will not be able to backup open files (like Outlook .pst)
Instead of samba share, you could of course use pscp from putty to scp the files to ssh server. Though, using WinXP backup, the scheduling of the transfer is a little trickier - you really must take a look at the commandline running of the backup program and create a .bat file for that to... or just schedule the scp transfer after a "safe" time ...
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