On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 09:42:16PM -0600, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> 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.
>
> Do any of these backup the winxp registry as well?
Bacula might, but is not usable; to the best of my knowledge, neither
AMANDA nor rsync will work on registries.
Joachim
