Re: [SLE] Windows backups to a Linux server
From: Osho GG (oshogg_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/02/04
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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:38:55 -0800 To: Hugo <hg.list@gmail.com>
A while ago, I backed up entire "My Documents" (which was over 2GB)
directory in Windows to a Linux using unison - which is a rsync like
(but better than rsync in my experience) utility which is available
for both Windows and Linux (No need to install Cygwin). Download it
from
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Install unison on windows machine and also on linux machine. Then on
Windows machine, start a unison server from a command line and on a
linux machine just use the unison GUI - it is pretty painless
process. If you run into troubles, make sure you use the same version
of unison on both machines. Unison also supports ssh if that is what
you need.
Unison is very useful for recurring backups. On subsequent backups,
unison (like rysnc) only backs up the data that has changed. There is
more documentation on unison's page if you want more info.
Osho
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 20:09:17 +0200, Hugo <hg.list@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:11:31 +0100, jalal <the_jalal@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> >
> > I have a client who is using Windows XP and wants to backup his files
> > (preferably automatically) to my Linux server.
>
> 1) Use samba to mount a suitable dir for the XP computer
> 2) Use WinXP built-in backup software to take the backup
> - it is easy to setup: graphical selection of files
> - can be easily automated from the same GUI
> - could actually be scripted... well the scheduling actually works
> by running scripts...
> 3) Take the backups to a file on the samba share.
>
> You could actually make 2 backups for alternating days and different
> files. WindowsXP backup is very good. It can even use shadow volume
> system to back up open files. It does not do compression how ever.
>
> If you want compression:
> 1) Get WinZip or another zip-tool that can be run from command line.
> 2) Construct a bat-file (that's script for linux guys :-) for running
> it with suitable parameters and files.
> 3) Point the outputfile to the samba share
>
> This probably will not be able to backup open files (like Outlook .pst)
>
> Instead of samba share, you could of course use pscp from putty to scp
> the files to ssh server. Though, using WinXP backup, the scheduling of
> the transfer is a little trickier - you really must take a look at the
> commandline running of the backup program and create a .bat file for
> that to... or just schedule the scp transfer after a "safe" time ...
>
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