On 1/6/07, Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
I didn't use it because of this Problem.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12189500
The Bacula author Kern Sibbald said in the above link that it would a
feature in the future but I have not followed up to see if it was
implemented.
- backuppc
I use this on OpenBSD 4.0/amd64 to backup OpenBSD/FreeBSD/Debian/MS Windows
but it suffers from the limitations said in
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/limitations.html
More over it is not in 4.0 ports.
Andreas Volges sent it to ports@ after he got a few enquiries about this port.
( he was kind enough to send me privately 3.9 port too 6 months back )
- 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 have no experience with other software you mentioned :-(
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...
Yup! I am also on the lookout for a solution to do this.
I was looking for some sort of setup that can clone an entire
partition and may be share the images using some sort of version
control.
Some one sent me
http://alma.ch/blogs/bahut/2005/04/cloning-xp-with-linux-and-ntfsclone.html
but it is not feasible since it requiresa reboot :-(
Hope this helps
Kind Regards
Siju
