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 1G5FRh-0005r1-MW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:27:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6P5OfY9008089; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:24:41 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.101]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6P5JSDl026725 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:19:28 GMT Received: from [10.20.31.251] (cpe-066-057-226-032.nc.res.rr.com [66.57.226.32]) by ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6P5JQ0k006304 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:19:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44C5B781.9060005@electronsweatshop.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:17:37 -0500 From: Randy Barlow User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060628) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Backup schemes involving Win XP stored to linux References: <87ejwa46oe.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87ejwa46oe.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: c85df2a7-6b14-4caa-a376-308ffd47fde1 X-Archives-Hash: f577de49a9eaa3d7490ac6cfd8b66008 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. > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list