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- Philluminati, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I quite liked this article.
Another nice solution which i'm currently working on myself is to put all my documents into a subversion respository and do a huge checkout. Then I can update to restore, checkin to back up (on a file or folder) basis as well as look at version histories, compare changes and restore certain versions.
This way there is absolutely minimum network traffic and the server can be off for a few days with out things getting broken or confused.
The biggest benefit is the history tho. If you can't remember when you screwed a document up, you have to go back through loads of individual days of back ups trying to find the one which is how you want it.
Good tho. - ricksite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8or ...[rant]Anyone that uses linux to refer to something that can be done with any flavor of *nix instead of just saying "how to do this on *nix" needs to be shot.[/rant]
- cstanes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6To avoid from having to download and install cygwin just to run rsync, check out cwRsync, which can be run directly from Windows without using the cygwin shell.
http://itefix.no/cwrsync/ - honer123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5There's also Delta Copy, which is basically an rsync wrapper app. for windows.
http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp - rjgrel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6BackupPC seems like it'd be a much easier solution. Backs up via rsync and has a nifty web interface.
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ - nukey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Am I the only one with a setup like this.
3 Windows XP clients, all have 1 share.
1 Slackware linux server, every evening all the shares are automatically mounted on the slackware server and it then rsyncs all the shares to folders on the slackware server, no client config needed, and adding another pc/share is like 1 minute work. - lenwood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've been thinking of setting up a LAMP server using an old PC that's been in the closet. Now I have another reason. This is a great article.
- KF6BBL, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Seems like this is making a mountain out of a mole hill.
1)Linux box runs Samba
2)Wite backup.bat, with one line: xcopy /d/e/c/h/y/EXCLUDE:exclude.txt c:* n:pc-backup (backslashes needed after dos drive letters)
3)WinXP box runs batch file at 5am, by the Win task scheduler
4)Profit! - nx01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@egotripping
Not much. The only thing this truly does is backup your existing XP workstation to save your data. It's really designed so you have Ubuntu and Xp on different machines or partitions/virtual images. - PleaseJustDie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4[rant]Anyone that uses ubuntu to refer to something that can be done with any flavor of Linux instead of just saying "how to do this on Linux" needs to be shot.[/rant]
- nonsecu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I am surprised he did not mention cwRsync as a good (lightweight, non-intrusive) cygwin+rsync install... Instead of installing full-blown cygwin, just install the tiny pieces you need, along with ssh.exe and rsync.exe with this package: http://itefix.no/cwrsync/
This is what I have been using for over a year to backup my important data to my rsync.net account. Their warrant canary gives me all kinds of warm fuzzy feelings: http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt - raynar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Robocopy
- BassJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1An interesting article, I've read about RSynx before, being on of the features in the oh-so-similair-and-sick-of-hearing-about-it-on-digg Freenas FreeBSD NAS distro! I never really looked into it properly as I didn't have the NAS box on 24/7 and just couldn't be arsed to get a RSynx client for windows! This however has inspired me and maybe on the next really rainy day I'll give it a spin!
- zadadka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Rats, beaten to it :)
Use RSync a lot....VERY handy. - Stonekeeper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can testify that BackupPC works really well. I've had 3 instances of it backing up 5 servers and believe me, it just works. The web interface to it is great and the history view of directories is invaluable for pinpointing when files "just dissapeared".
- zadadka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1copies whole files, not byte level...
- ostracize, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is in no way Ubuntu specific (or Windows XP specific for that matter). Just Windows and *nix would be fine
- ortel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://dragonfort.net/dump/public-backup.zip
there a zip with tar, scp, gpg, and a batch file.
That batch file will do backups on most win32 computers to any ssh able account.
It will encrypt the file so that the remote location can be not secure without any worry.
Or make a user account on a friends computer, and just use his computer as your backup on a rainy day.
it's a solution you can really take to a sane business. - statmobile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I disagree kd1s, because rsync does incremental backups. Therefore, it doesn't take nearly as long as using scp to copy everything to an external server
- benplaut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@KF6BBL:
Yes, but will that only update the changed files? looks like it would do the entire system. Behold, the beauty of rsync ;) - NTolerance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I tried a setup like this on my network but the combination of cygwin, rsync, and samba had trouble copying filenames with high ASCII in them. A lot of my mp3s are this way and it mangled my backups. I switched to Robocopy.
- SimonGray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This article is a bit superfluous. Why spend long time editing text-files when you can just use the GUI frontend? I regularly use Grsync for backing up my files and I've never had to edit any text-files:
http://monkeyblog.org/img/screens/Syncing_windows_documents_cut.png - FiP0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The site has an interesting design, too.
- kd1s, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It'd probably be easier to just download the entire PuTTY suite and use PSCP to copy your win box over to whatever server you want.
- PleaseJustDie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1True, but not everything can be done on *nix, BSD has some BSD only applications just like Linux has some stuff that won't run on BSD. However when referring to one flavor of Linux, its Linux and should be called as such. But if it is able to be done on all then it should be referred to as *nix. But it doesn't matter much anyway since BSD sucks. Tux > stupid devil thing.
- SlapAyoda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I prefer rsnapshot:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/rsnapshot_HowTo_backing_up_Windows_servers_onto_a_Linux_rsnapshot_install - dgaspard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I don't how they can debut a quantum computer. As soon as you see it, it no longer exist!
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I tried this very switch a couple of weeks ago. Ubuntu is a very mature and easy to use distro from what I can tell, but it's still plagued with the problems of all Linux GUI apps - programs are capable of 100 features but you can only access 60 from the GUI. Until programmers start enabling fully functional GUIs for their apps nobody will switch from Windows.
Needless to say, I'm back on XP now. I have a dual boot to Ubuntu but I never use it. There's no software that interests me and none of my Windows games work (and I'm not spending money to subscribe to Cedega). - troydoogle7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1True Ubuntu will never be mainstream until things like this can be done via gui like backupmypc
- habbofresh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0@KF6BBL,
I agree. while I am for people learning linux, I loathe the sophomoric newbs that Ubuntu seems to mainly consist of who have to constantly broadcast every. *****. command. they. learn. - egotripping, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I'd like to make the switch to Ubuntu, but I'm running XP right now. What exactly will this do for me?
- nx01, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I liked it up until this point:
"I set up BackupPC, ran it once, it seemed to work, and then ignored it for weeks. When I checked back, it hadn’t run successfully since. Ugh, I want backups to just work!"
They're called instructions, and the devs don't just write them for something to do. Read them, setup your full and incremental schedule (about a 5 or 10 minute ordeal), and let it run. I've had about 10 or so laptops backing up to this from multiple subnets for some time, and it works flawlessly with no client piece to the laptops at all.
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