I wanted to back up Windows servers to a Linux box using either BackupPC or Bacula. Bacula has a Windows client but cannot fix the locked file issues with Windows. BackupPC doesn't have a network protocol and would have to use samba. My plan was to use ntbackup to create local files of either the entire system or just the system state and backing up that file across the network. Since either system can work with the ntbackup file, I thought BackupPC looked better because it takes advantage of the rsync network savings. Although I've had issues relying on Windows samba in the past. Also, depending on the type of compression and composition of the backup file rsync may or may not help with network traffic. Anyone else had a chance to test this out or shed any light? Jeff Rasmussen On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:28:53 -0500 (CDT), Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Jason Sievert wrote: > > Hey guys, I need some advice on doing a backup for our lab server. I > > have about 140GB of data that I would like to backup to a SNAP NAS that > > we have laying around. I am running Gentoo on the server if that makes > > a difference. Well I was thinking about doing a simple tar but I was > > wondering if their was anything else out their that might make my life > > easier. My boss is hoping for something that can do basic incrementals. > > Any thought or experiences? > > BackupPC rules. > > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > It's packaged in Debian; not sure about Gentoo, but I'd imagine it's > there. > > The advantages of BackupPC really come when backing up multiple machines > (any identical files will automatically be hardlinked), but it should work > just fine for what you want to do, too. It supports incremental and such > out of the box. > > -- > Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 > http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Jeff Rasmussen GPG public key 0x9686C12F _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list