Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Backup schemes involving Win XP stored to linux

[Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com>]

I would recommend you use BackupPC.  It's masked in portage for testing,
or you can install straight from source (that's actually what I did...)
 It's pretty nice - it will use rsync or samba or tar, or rsyncd
depending on how you configure it.  Has a nice web interface too...

R

reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> I'd like to hear of anyones experiences with a setup like the one I'll
> describe in a moment.  I haven't worked with this extensively yet but
> a tentative plan looks like this:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> I guess what I'd like to hear about is any known problems with mixing
> filesystems like that.  It will all be run over cifs from linux and the
> windows boxes will browse for stuff when needed over smb to the linux
> files .
> 
> I haven't noticed any show stoppers in my small experiments but wonder
> how they will scale up.
> 
> I'm thinking of graduating to somekind of external network storage
> with a raid setup and really huge capacity, but again I'd like to have
> the server end be gentoo and rsnapshot/rsync.
> 
> Other schemes are welcome.
> 

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