Jacob Yocom-Piatt writes: > 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.
You could run Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition on the Windows clients and backup to Samba shares on the OpenBSD server. The desktop edition costs 30 EUR per client and although the software is from Symantec it isn't that bad. > [...] > 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... There's a patched cygwin-rsyncd available from the BackupPC site that supports volume shadow copies. You still can't do disaster recoveries though.
