On Monday 12 January 2009, John Mort wrote: > It looks like finances are finally starting to move toward my being > able to create a backup server for my home computers over the next > few paychecks, and I'm looking for input on how you guys do your > backups, and any critiques on what I intend to do. > > I have four computers on my LAN, two Ubuntu laptops, an XP desktop, > and an XP/Ubuntu dualboot desktop. > I'm thinking of having the backup server boot itself up once a day > via BIOS, ping each of these computers, then attempt a backup of > any computers that are on, then power itself off.
BackupPC can work for this as long as you set up the times for both BackupPC and the BIOS correctly (obviously the BIOS has to be a couple of minutes earlier). > With the laptops and the dualboot desktop, I figure rsync would > work (since that XP instance is only for gaming, I don't really > care about backing it up). But what would be the best way to back > up my wifes XP computer? The dual-boot Desktop is going to be the most interesting to handle. If you go with BackupPC you'll probably end up needing to call the dual-boot Desktop box by two slightly different names to keep the files separate -- one being a backup method via rsync over ssh, the other via SMB after setting up Windows to allow sharing the files you want backed up. Note that if you go with BackupPC and rsync over ssh, ssh will require some minimal X libraries for that to work. BackupPC also requires Apache2 and is written in Perl, but the interface is decent and it's designed for hard disk storage. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jan 7 - Ruby on Rails Feb 4 - TBD
