On 24/04/2009, doug livesey <biot...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi -- I have a drive that gets a weekly backup of a Windows network stored > to it, and I would like to have that backed up in turn remotely.
Rsync will do that. However Rsync is not native to MS-Windows, neither is SSH/SCP which Rsync can operate over. You may encounter problems setting up Rsync on MS-Windows. If you achieve success with Rsync, well done. If not... then my simpler solution, for backing up client MS-Windows machines onto a Linux server, has been: * Set up Samba and Windows Filesharing so that the Linux server can see the MS-Windows hard drives over Samba * Write a Bash script which mounts the MS-Windows share, then uses Zip to traverse to share. * Run the Bash script using Cron Zip supports many backup-friendly options, including directory recursion, incremental updates, timestamping and exclusion lists. For example, I have mine set to exclude video files such as AVI, since these are so large they'd quickly fill the server. You could probably use Tar/Gzip instead. I chose Zip because it was better supported under MS-Windows than tgz. In particular I wanted to make it easy for MS-Windows users to extract their own backups out of the archive. Another feature I considered but did not implement was to use the "magic packet" to wake the MS-Windows clients from standby a few minutes before the backup. -- Andrew Oakley and...@aoakley.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
