Thanks for all the suggestions and ideas. I'll be checking them all out over the next few weeks.
-MD On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Bill Dougan <[email protected]> wrote: > BackupPC uses rsync and is open source. I'm not familiar with SME Server, > but since it's built on CentOS, it likely will work just fine. > > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html > > > -- > Bill Dougan > AVG Technologies USA, Inc. > 2105 Northwest Blvd. > Newton, NC 28658 > Office: (866)-833-5727 > Fax: (828)-459-7341 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Drone > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 7:34 AM > To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List > Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] NAS Backup? > > RichCopy looks pretty nice. I'm currently doing backups across the > LAN with Cobian and the command line version of WinSCP, both of which > work OK. Just looking for that magic Win32 rsync engine. > > Here's another avenue I'm exploring: > http://dailycupoftech.com/windows-backup-with-rsync-and-freenas/ > > -MD > > > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:23 PM, K Lesko <[email protected]> wrote: >> What about RichCopy I came across this last week but haven't used it. >> >> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx >> >> I have used robocopy a few time recovering files (20GB+) and it worked as >> advertised but I haven't used it for regular backups. >> >> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Scott Williams <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> I use Robocopy also for quick and dirty backups using windows scheduler. >>> Here's an example >>> >>> robocopy U:\USERS D:\USERS /E /XF *.wma *.jpg *.mpg *.wmv *.wmf *.bmp >>> *.gif *.asf *.avi >>> >>> >>> >>> This grabs all my users on my network folder and copies to an external USB >>> Drive only copying new or modified files minus all those pictures and >>> movies. >>> >>> Scott >>> >>> >>> >>> Dylan Haines wrote: >>> >>> Robocopy has a switch for the archive bit - works quite well. >>> >>> >>> Dylan Haines >>> Systems Technical Support Manager >>> >>> HB Studios Multimedia Ltd. >>> Box 725, The Hive >>> 37 Hall Street >>> Lunenburg, NS B0J 2C0 >>> >>> Tel: (902)634-8316 ext. 237 >>> Cell: (902)553-0706 >>> Fax: (902)634-3647 >>> >>> www.hb-studios.com >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Abe Loveless >>> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 1:19 PM >>> To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List >>> Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] NAS Backup? >>> >>> I'm interested to see how this works. My experience with rsync and >>> Windows >>> hosts was that it couldn't really tell whether files were changed or >>> not... >>> it pulled all the data, every time. >>> >>> I found some documentation stating similar results, so I don't think it >>> was >>> just a conf error on my part. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Mark Drone wrote: >>> >>> >>> Does anyone have experience with NasBackup? >>> >>> http://www.nasbackup.com >>> >>> I'm looking for a good way to rsync from Win32 servers/clients to >>> FreeNAS or SME. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -MD >>> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >>> >>> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Scott R. Williams >>> >>> Fisher School District >>> 801 S . 5th St. >>> Fisher, Il 61843 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >> >> >> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >> > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
