[ale] Need advice on home back-up solution

[Greg]

Check out the rsync site.  It is done by the same guy who did SAMBA.  He
provides 3 or 4 scripts to do just what you want.  SAMBA can also do
backups.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Chris
> Ricker
> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 12:03 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Need advice on home back-up solution
>
>
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, 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.
>
> Maybe look at amanda. It can backup windows shares via Samba, and
> there are
> also native clients for windows, though I've never used those.
>
> later,
> chris
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