On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Lew Wolfgang <wolfgang@sweet-haven.com> wrote:
On 10/13/2014 01:14 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Lew Wolfgang <wolfgang@sweet-haven.com> wrote:
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
Lew,
If you like rdiff-backup, why not just continue to use it. They have Windows clients as well as Linux. Sounds like you already have the server side in hand.
Greg
Well, that would require cygwin and possibly an ssh server on the Windows end. I might not be able to swing that in this environment, but it's certainly worth looking at!
Thanks, Lew
If you've never done it, you can really cut down the size of a cygwin install for a task specific need. The way I do it is on a R&D PC running windows install cygwin and verify you have rdiff-backup working inside a cygwin shell. Now fire up a standard windows command prompt and create a temp folder (C:\my_rdiff_junk). Copy the rdiff-backup exe in there and try to run it from the dos command line. It will fail, but give you an error message about what DLL is missing. Find that in cygwin and copy it to your temp folder. ie. cp c:\cygwin\bin\{missing-dll} c:\my_rdiff_junk Repeat until you have all the DLLs you need to let rdiff-backup run. Last time I did something like this it was about 5 DLLs I think. You can then zip up your temp folder and send it out to your install base. Windows also has scheduled tasks that should let you invoke rdiff-backup on each PC. Greg Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org