From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G5QRs-0002cB-WC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:12:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6PH8EvE017968; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:08:14 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6PH3fGn001280 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:03:42 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2006 17:03:41 -0000 Received: from dslb-088-065-070-110.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO huxley.mblan) [88.65.70.110] by mail.gmx.net (mp015) with SMTP; 25 Jul 2006 19:03:41 +0200 X-Authenticated: #428074 Received: by huxley.mblan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 920E4AFDA0; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:03:44 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:03:44 +0200 From: Matthias Bethke To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Backup schemes involving Win XP stored to linux Message-ID: <20060725170344.GC1129@huxley> References: <87ejwa46oe.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="at6+YcpfzWZg/htY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ejwa46oe.fsf@newsguy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 6d44b03f-5814-44f7-ae75-3070f79fdd3d X-Archives-Hash: 00fad50fefdb516d6d1b6b18f8f72923 --at6+YcpfzWZg/htY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi reader, on Tuesday, 2006-07-25 at 00:03:45, you wrote: > Three or more windows XP boxes that are devoted primarily to editing > video or graphics in one way or another. The stuff needing backup can > be in really big files but also lots of normal sized still images etc. >=20 > I'm planning to use rsnapshot/rsync to back up the NTFS windows disks > to a gentoo box with internal discs with the needed capacity. If the copying is only for backup, you could use amanda and Samba for the job. I've only done it with a single XP crate but it worked flawlessly and has the advantage of allowing backups to devices smaller than the backupee's disks, or even smaller than individual files, in case they should be \LARGE. cheers! Matthias --=20 I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 --at6+YcpfzWZg/htY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFExk7wSNkXAPrDdmURAjYMAKC01Fj3odWrlUY3NCcQSmfLV0gGrACfd9wb FR3RFa5+g1jO7M3mDQM2buM= =/IgU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --at6+YcpfzWZg/htY-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list