I would use a combination of cron, tar, and that silly little
cron equivalent in windows that sits in your system tray and
reminds you to scan or defrag your harddisk in the middle of
the day when your doing vital live video editing =)
erm...
you get what i mean.
make a script to archive and compress what you want backed up,
run it overnight or whatever, then a little later transfer this
file across to the backup machine.
if you archive and compress the files you preserve all file atributes
and allow the archive to be stored anywhere under any name.
Dean
Alex Salmon wrote:
>
> hi
> Im looking for advice about backing up home networks regually.
>
> It needs to be able to quickly copy a whole hard disk through a network
> and store it safetly on my box.
>
> The boxes are mainly winbloze so it has to be able to handle file names w/
> spaces etc and NOT change them into %20 as it did last time arrg. I have
> ruled out just using a web or ftp server because of speed and filename
> problems. Are there any systems that dont open a new data connection for
> each file as this dramiticly reduces speed..
>
> I would like to use somthing like rsync but does it have windoes
> versions. I looked for some binarys but couldent find any..
>
> Is there any other method that only updates changes files etc and it needs
> to be able to neatly put everything bak to where it was w/o changing file
> permissions dates created etc.
>
> I know there are many heavy duty back up programs for using w/ tape
> archives etc but it would be quite nice if the filees were backed up as
> they are and not put into an archive so i can selectivly restore w/
> relitave ease.
>
> Samba back up programs are a possibility but is there anything else as
> some boxes are locked from sharing as they are setup for company
> networks. so it would be nice if it didnt rely on shares.
>
> thanks all
> ghoti
>
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