There is a command line tool for windows i think called "robocopy" (im not in the office to check). On my network I use a scheduled task of robocopy to backup windows machines to a local samba share, and then rsync that to replicate remotely. I do an incremental backup which is normally pretty quick, but I'm not sure about restore previous versions etc.
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 11:53 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote: > On 24/04/2009, doug livesey <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
