[ale] Bacula or Rsync + Windows

[George Allen]

We have several dozen sites running off T1's, and mobile users running
off line or on VPN sometimes.
So - hosting everything over the WAN isn't really an option.

I'd prefer something like the windows equiv. of a CRON job that wakes
up, determines if it's on the home network, tests bandwidth calls
rsync, and reports success/failure.

Now - if I had my way, I'd put them all on x-terminals and teach them
unix and ssh, but that's not an option either.

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Strong in the force this one is.
>
>
> On Oct 6, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 10:32 -0400, George Allen wrote:
>>> Has anyone setup a backup server for windows clients?
>>> Anything from bacula to some type of rsync client, feeding back to a
>>> linux freebsd box, to backup user directories?
>>>
>>> Ideally, I'd like to setup a FreeBSD (or Solaris if it still exists)
>>> box, running rsync to pull down backups, and zfs for per-user
>>> filesystem, quotas, and cifs sharing.
>>> (Yes I know btrfs will save the world, but it's not exactly stable
>>> yet.)
>>>
>>> Or - if there's a existing sub-system in windows for this that isn't
>>> crap, what is it? Not familiar.
>>
>> If you can manage to do it, don't back up the Windows clients at all.
>> Instead, provide a standard client setup where all the programs and so
>> forth match up with each other, and throw in a Samba server and move all
>> the data to the server.  Use Windows' profile folder redirection to move
>> things to the Samba “Home” directory and outside of the profile storage
>> (things like My Documents and Roaming Profile Data for example) and then
>> just backup the server on whatever backup schedule you want.
>>
>>       --- Mike
>>
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