Dne Po 13. října 2014 11:31:04, Lew Wolfgang napsal(a):
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.
I'm not sure if I understand correctly. OwnCloud has a very easy and capable desktop syncing client for any system and it just runs in the background. The files can be accessed using Windows network drive. I don't know if ownCloud can run without web server, but I think this is the only problem. Otherwise I think it'd meet Your requirements. Or launch FTP server and use some Windows client running in background and just sending changes... What else do You need? :-)
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.
No problem here, all proposed solutions allow to set what to backup.
BTW, all hosts are behind a single firewall, so I don't have to worry about bridging domains.
Regards, Lew
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