@egotrippingNot 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.
I 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
<a class="user" href="http://dragonfort.net/dump/public-backup.zip">http://dragonfort.net/dump/public-backup.zip</a>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.
Am 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.
An 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!
honer123Feb 13, 2007
There's also Delta Copy, which is basically an rsync wrapper app. for windows.<a class="user" href="http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp">http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp</a>
slapayodaFeb 13, 2007
I prefer rsnapshot:<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/rsnapshot_HowTo_backing_up_Windows_servers_onto_a_Linux_rsnapshot_install">http://digg.com/linux_unix/rsnapshot_HowTo_backing_up_Windows_servers_onto_a_Linux_rsnapshot_install</a>
nx01Feb 13, 2007
@egotrippingNot 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.
statmobileFeb 13, 2007
I 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
ortelFeb 13, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://dragonfort.net/dump/public-backup.zip">http://dragonfort.net/dump/public-backup.zip</a>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.
nukeyFeb 14, 2007
Am 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.
bassjunkieFeb 14, 2007
An 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!
litespeedOct 25, 2009
From the link: "cwRsync is a yet another packaging of Rsync and Cygwin."