[GTALUG] Backing up Windows Machines to Linux NAS,

[Bob Jonkman]

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I have one Windows box left, on which I've installed the UnxUtils
package (in the Windows sense of package, not .rpm or .deb) That box
uses a batch file to push its files to a GNU/Linux backup server using
rsync.exe. On other Windows boxes I've used Scheduled Tasks to run
batch files, although I'm not doing so here.

I used the Windows tool DeltaCopy for a while, but it was too finicky.
But it did generate a useful command line for rsync.exe, which I now
use with UnxUtils.

- --Bob.


On 2017-06-27 10:03 PM, ted leslie via talk wrote:
> I use spider oak for this. I believe there is a opensource
> non-hosted alternative. Google for open source alternatives to
> spider-oak one. SO1 has encryption, and  its only client side
> placed, hosting co. doesn't even have key. This violates your
> "google results" stipulations, but this is a good email topic to
> intro people to SO1 and SO1 alternatives, and you may find exactly
> what you want. For now I am fine with hosted solution, as its also
> offsite. But eventually wouldn't mind non-hosted, and started to
> look for that, and there were some claims that there is stuff out
> there.
> 
> -tl
> 
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk
> <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> 
>> I'm sure many of us have friends and family with Windows
>> Machines. And the savvy among us run our own Linux Backup server
>> / NAS boxes.
>> 
>> How do you get regular, automated copies of data off said Windows
>> machines?
>> 
>> I would like to only hear from folks that actively using a
>> solution. Not a list of 'exercise for the reader' google
>> results.
>> 
>> 
>> # Goal:
>> 
>> To recover from a ransom-ware infection, by pulling the last
>> clean snapshot of user data from the NAS.
>> 
>> # Assumptions:
>> 
>> Snapshots are handled by the Backup Server / NAS at a FS layer
>> (ZFS / BTRFS), or by the server side backup software.
>> 
>> # Nice to haves:
>> 
>> * In-transit encryption.
>> 
>> # Not an Acceptable Answers:
>> 
>> Open Samba on the windows box, mounting it on the backup server,
>> and running rsync regularly.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance! -- Scott Sullivan --- Talk Mailing List 
>> talk at gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Talk Mailing List talk at gtalug.org 
> https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
> 

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