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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. > -- [email protected] mailing list
