From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QPTrv-00028a-CM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 06:16:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D80131C4C6 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 06:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from patrick-nagel.net (patrick-nagel.net [178.63.64.58]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56C651C412 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 06:10:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by patrick-nagel.net (Postfix, from userid 1015) id 67C4C12002; Thu, 26 May 2011 06:10:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from work17.sha.cn.star-group.net (unknown [58.246.134.210]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by patrick-nagel.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 16D0EDCA18 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 06:10:00 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4DDDEEB1.3010101@patrick-nagel.net> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 14:09:53 +0800 From: Patrick Nagel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110525 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Best backup service? References: <4DDD6008.8080903@gmail.com> <20110526035337.5C337250040@webabinitio.net> <4DDDDC0E.4080906@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DDDDC0E.4080906@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig7EAC5C75384BE2CF09B36BD9" X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.2 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8cbd56115a76c193ac6e6f26ef29b97a This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7EAC5C75384BE2CF09B36BD9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I'm also using rdiff-backup extensively. And yes, it can backup Windows boxes, but there are known issues when the target file system is NTFS, so better avoid that. Should be fine with NTFS as source file system. Patrick. P.S.: Btw., great to see this list come to life again :) On 2011-05-26 12:50, Kristjan Kalder wrote: > But is it capable of backing up my windows machines? > At the time when I asked the question I was reading baculas and amandas= > documentations and could not decide. Now I am even more confused. :) >=20 > On 26.05.2011 6:53, R. David Murray wrote: >> On Wed, 25 May 2011 23:01:12 +0300, Kristjan >> Kalder wrote: >>> I'm currently looking for a good backup service so I could do >>> centralized backups of all my Windows and Linux clients. >>> I don't have any tape devices so the backups have to go on a hard dri= ve. >>> What would you suggest? >> I started out with bacula, but as someone else said the disk backup >> support is cumbersome. I've since switched to rsync-backup and I love= >> it. Combined with one of the web interfaces it basically gives you ti= me >> machine for your linux boxes.... >> >> --=20 >> R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.com >> >=20 --=20 Key ID: 0x86E346D4 http://patrick-nagel.net/key.asc Fingerprint: 7745 E1BE FA8B FBAD 76AB 2BFC C981 E686 86E3 46D4 --------------enig7EAC5C75384BE2CF09B36BD9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3d7rQACgkQyYHmhobjRtSEcgCfchXTmaX88Ank3Un2c5iVXR++ BpkAoKRNYrkrfgniOZJyViTQjdHt+UWI =yWh1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7EAC5C75384BE2CF09B36BD9--