Do any of these backup the winxp registry as well?
Sam Fourman Jr.
On 1/5/07, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 05:05:37PM -0600, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
> i've seen a number of solutions for backing up windows hosts to an
> openbsd backup server. there are ~50 windows hosts to backup with an
> average of ~10 GB of stuff on each machine. for my purposes a key
> feature of such a solution is that it makes FULL backups of the windows
> hosts that can be used to replace faulty hard drives with working
> bootable replacement drives.
>
> the solutions i've seen offered on openbsd lists and elsewhere are
>
> - amanda w/ cygwin
> - rsync w/ cygwin
> - bacula
> - backuppc
> - boxbackup
>
> if anyone has experience with these programs and can vouch for their
> ease of use in the aforementioned context, i would like to hear about
> it. do let me know if i've missed any good ones that are not already listed.
>
> i am to understand that backuppc cannot backup locked windows files nor
> can you generate full bootable restores, so it's out of the running
> pretty much off the bat. figured i'd mention it anyways...
To the extent of my knowledge, the AMANDA in ports uses SAMBA to backup
Windows hosts, and (thus?) suffers from the same problem. I'd suppose
rsync has the same problem AMANDA has, but I never tried that. It does
need lots of disk, though.
Some bacula guys recently posted a port of their client (which promptly
got broken by a revision to the mt code, but that's fixed now); however,
I don't think the server currently works on OpenBSD.
I'm not familiar with any of the other things you mention.
Me, I just tell everyone that whatever isn't on the SAMBA server can,
and will, be eaten. If the network was a bit bigger, I'd probably use
install images of some sort for the Windows boxes.
Joachim
