[ale] Bacula or Rsync + Windows

[Jerald Sheets]

Strong in the force this one is.


On Oct 6, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 10:32 -0400, George Allen wrote:
>> Has anyone setup a backup server for windows clients?
>> Anything from bacula to some type of rsync client, feeding back to a
>> linux freebsd box, to backup user directories?
>> 
>> Ideally, I'd like to setup a FreeBSD (or Solaris if it still exists)
>> box, running rsync to pull down backups, and zfs for per-user
>> filesystem, quotas, and cifs sharing.
>> (Yes I know btrfs will save the world, but it's not exactly stable
>> yet.)
>> 
>> Or - if there's a existing sub-system in windows for this that isn't
>> crap, what is it? Not familiar. 
> 
> If you can manage to do it, don't back up the Windows clients at all.
> Instead, provide a standard client setup where all the programs and so
> forth match up with each other, and throw in a Samba server and move all
> the data to the server.  Use Windows' profile folder redirection to move
> things to the Samba “Home” directory and outside of the profile storage
> (things like My Documents and Roaming Profile Data for example) and then
> just backup the server on whatever backup schedule you want.
> 
> 	--- Mike
> 
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