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On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Ares Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Greetings. > > I am currently looking into setting up a better backup solution for our > family. > > I own a ZFS Fileserver with a 5x500GB raidz. I want to back up data (not > the OS itself) from multiple PCs running linux oder windowsXP. The linux > boxes are connected via 1000Mbit, the windows machines either via > gigabit as well or 54Mbit WPA encrypted WLAN. So far i've set up sharing > via NFS on the Solaris box and it works well from both Linux and Windows > (via SFU). > > I am looking for a solution to do incremental backups without wasting > space on the fileserver and I want to be able to access a single file in > the backup in differnt versions without much hassle. I think it can be > done easily with ZFS and Snapshots? > > What would be good ways to get the files to the fileserver? For linux I > thought of using rsync to sync the files over, than do a snapshot to > preserve that backup state. Would you recommend using rsync with NFS or > over ssh? (I assume the network is save enough for our needs.) Are there > better alternatives? > > How to best get the data from the Windows machines to the Solaris box? > Just copying them over by hand would not delete files on the fileserver > in case some files are deleted on the windows box in between different > backups. Using rsync on windows is only possible with cygwin emulation. > Maybe there are better methods? > > > Anyone have a similar setup, recommendations, or maybe something I could > use as an idea? > > Thanks in advance, > > A. Drake > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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