-- Greg Freemyer On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Thomas Taylor <linxt@comcast.net> wrote:
I would like to set up an older desktop system for backing up five home systems over the internal LAN. This would probably be a scheduled weekly job involving both Linux and Windows boxes.
What hardware other than the computer, LAN card, and LARGE (2+ TB-wife has LOTS of photos) disk would be needed?
I'm thinking that rsync would be the best for this use but would entertain other methods. I have a bash file that I got from someone on the OS forum several years ago but looks fairly simple to modify. My main question regards backing up from the two Windows boxes. Would that need Samba or some other software?
The backup box has: Asus M5A?? AMD socket 3 CPU 4 GB RAM 2+ TB hard disk old PCIe video card (Nvidia ?) for setup only
Thanks, Tom
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If you're a linux guy and you don't need samba for another reason, I would install cygwin / rsync on the windows boxes. Then use rsync to sync between the 2 boxex via ssh. It is a very common method of using rsync, so you should have no trouble finding howto's. If for some reason you don't want to use ssh, you can setup rsync as a daemon on the backup server and then have the clients connect to the backup server via a pure rsync method. You can setup a scheduled task on the windows boxes similar to using cron to do it on the linux machines. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org