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

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

[reader]

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

[Randy Barlow]

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

[Matthias Bethke]

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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.
> 
> 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
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