Hi there, On Wed, 17 Nov 2021, Taste-Of-IT wrote:
i tested BackupPC since a few months at home with 5 Linux Clients and it is working well. Thanks all for this great peace of software. I now want that my family can backup from there Windows, Ubuntu and Linux Mint Clients to that server. The Server is running Debian with latest BPC. What could a good practicable, automatic, secure and at all a simple way, for my family to run backups on that server?
Assuming that the computers used by you and by your family are in more than one physical location and on separate independent LANs, then I agree with Mr. Lytle that you will find a VPN very useful. Be aware however that if any of the networks use the same network masks you may need to be creative in the way that you address remote hosts from your local BackupPC server. The way I do it is to assign to hosts in all the 192.168.0.0/16 networks a second set of IPs in the 10.2.x.0/16 network. Each remote network has its own /24 netmask within the /16 netmask of the larger 10.2.0.0/16 network, e.g. 10.2.1.0/24 etc., so that any host in the entire network can be addressed by a 10.x.x.x IP. In addition to making backups easier, it helps with things like remote security cameras. You will probably want to use SMB to back up the Windows boxes, but with some effort it is possible to use rsync. Presumably you'll back up only the personal files, not most of the easily-replaced OS stuff? What kind of Internet connections will you be using? This kind of thing can easily saturate an ADSL connection for hours at a Stretch when one day someone in the family decides to download a few movies. You might want to think carefully about exclude patterns, but if your family is anything like my clients you won't want to waste your time trying to get them to be disciplined about the way they use storage. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
