On 10/13/2014 10:58 AM, Christopher Myers wrote:
Lew Wolfgang 10/13/14 12:47 PM >>> Hi Folks,
Does anyone have any suggestions for automated backups of heterogeneous desktops these days? I've been using rdiff-backup for many years for Linux clients, but now have a requirement to add Windows 7 to the mix. Years ago I used Samba's smbclient to copy shared Windows XP directories to a central Linux box under cron control, but I'm not sure that's the best way for incremental backups and it might not even work any more.
Any suggestions/ideas? Bacula?
Thanks, Lew Personally, at home I use ownCloud on the workstations, and rsync (via rsnapshot) on the server :)
ownCloud looks interesting, but I don't think it's appropriate for this requirement. I need something that's locally hosted and that will back up without the Windows users having to do anything. They can't be trusted to do anything right, after all! :-) I can't establish a web server either, (don't ask) and so users would request file retrieval when needed. Further requirements include backing up perhaps fifty Win-7 desktops on a daily, incremental basis. I wouldn't need to back up system areas, just c:\Users and below. The target backup repo would be a large RAID-6 array with on-line hotswap spares. The rdiff-backup of about twenty Linux desktops is working fine and I don't mind keeping this going forward. But if some package can do it better I'm not adverse to change. BTW, all hosts are behind a single firewall, so I don't have to worry about bridging domains. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org