[ale] Need advice on home back-up solution

[synco gibraldter]

if you're going to be running samba anyway, i'd just cron a job to copy the needed 
dirs into a base directory called `date` or something rather than pushing them from 
each windows machine -- let the linux machine pull from all of them; less 
maintenance.

On 26 Sep 2003 at 15:43, Bill Hamilton wrote:

> I have a RedHat 9 GNU/Linux system with a new 80GB hard drive and
> several Windows 98SE/2000/XP machines at home in which I need to
> automatically backup user created information.  This inludes Microsoft
> office files, digital pictures (scattered throughout the hard drive),
> browser favorites and web autofill forms (RoboForm or something like
> that...my wife depends on it...I don't know).
> 
> I need a solution (probably made up of OpenSource/Free Software and
> cmd/batch/windows scripting scripts) where each of my various
> Microsoft based operating systems routinely backup user created
> information to an ftp or smb server (GNU/Linux box listed above).  I
> do not have a tape drive on each machine nor a CD Burner (however the
> newest upstairs Sony Viao does have a DVD-R/RW burner so I could
> weekly pull these archives off of the Linux server and burn to DVD as
> long as these archives are less than 4.7GB each).  I do have a spare
> 17GB hard drive and I was thinking of putting this also in the
> GNU/Linux box as a mirrored partition just in case...probably a good
> idea before I go too far down the road doing work on this fresh
> install of RH9.
> 
> What does the ALE crowd recommend?
> 
> At work we use Connected TLM network backup software and that seems to
> work very well.  I can open it's app and restore with ease but this
> kind of use would be icing on the cake.
> 
> Other icing or advanced needs would be:
> 
> 1.  Not have to go to each machine and manually start a backup
> 2.  Because we don't store everything in a c:\data folder then what I
> choose should not only pick-up "My Documents", "My Pictures" "RoboForm
> Data" but also by filename or filename extension on the hard drive. 3.
>  Actually be a (web based) document management system. 4.  Notify me
> of duplicate files.
> 
> I'm pretty adept with winzip command line and windows batch file
> writing so I could hack out a generic series of scripts that should
> work on each machine to create and transmit zips up to the server but
> I would like for these files to be unzipped up on the GNU/Linux box.
> 
> Any suggestion welcome...
> 
> -Bill Hamilton
> 
> 
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