Backing up Window clients

[Kihara Muriithi]

Hi,
Cool, thank you. I now have tonnes of information to work with in my
endeavor to get a solution. I am leaning toward bacula now

Thanks
William

On 16/07/07, John Van Ostrand <john-Da48MpWaEp0CzWx7n4ubxQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 11:43 -0400, John Sellens wrote:
> > backuppc.sourceforge.net
> >
> > de-duplication, snapshots, web interface for user restores, etc.
>
> I think John has one good option for you. I haven't used backuppc but
> I've looked at it for solving the issue you have. The issue with laptops
> is the duplication. You can easily get 40GB on a laptop and that is the
> capacity of your tape drive.
>
> You also have other options.
>
> 1. Use synchronized folders to backup their data to your server. This
> occurs when they login and when the logout. It requires some careful
> considerations to keep the process fast enough. For example you don't
> want your Internet cache to be synchronized. One easy solution is to
> sync the My Documents folder only. We have lots of customers using this
> with Windows servers and some using it with Samba servers.
>
> 2. Another option that is useful for laptops that roam a lot is an
> on-line backup. I haven't used any and I don't recall the names, but
> there are services that specialize in this sort of thing. They backup
> whenever there is an Internet connection. These companies provide the
> software and the storage occurs on their servers.
>
> 3. rdiff-backup is a great disk-to-disk backup for low bandwidth (e.g.
> high speed Internet) backup. Although I don't think it's suitable if you
> have a lot notebooks, but if you have only one or two it may be worth a
> try. It requires Cygwin, ssh, and rsync on Windows systems. You could
> run a background task in Windows at login to do this silently. I'm not
> sure what the results would be if it were interrupted.
>
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