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Judge my backup solution
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| Hi!
I need to back up about 15 computers in my company. These are rather
notebooks that employees take home after work; connected to a 100Mbit
ethernet network.
Typical notebook data is:
* My Documents folder: hundreds of small, rarely changing files,
* the MS Outlook data file (1GB-5GB): a large file changing every hour.
I've got to use a Linux server from IBM with about 80GB free space. The
server already a Samba share (so called "common disk").
I would like to have the backup data on the server build automatically
and periodically. History of the files would be very welcome to return
to the correct version after getting the backup updated.
My (weak) solutions are:
1.
* share all the files/folders on XP machines read-only,
* make the server download current version every few hours removing
the previous, maybe having calculated delta before (with xdelta)
Disadvantages:
needs transfering whole Outlook files.
2.
* install rsync on XP machines and sync to the server.
Disadvantages:
no builtin delta managenent.
3.
* install rdiff-backup with cygwin on windows machines
* have them synchronized with the server regularly
Disadvantages:
needs installing new software on each XP machine.
Advantages:
uses rsync-like transfer and builds incremental delta-organized history
of resources.
Problems:
I would need to transmit a copy of the large file, because it is
probably non-stop opened. So a windows Scheduled Task would have to copy
the file to be transferred.
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Can I ask you for comments or ideas (any thoughts are welcome)?
Best Regards,
Tomasz Nowak
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| timbrigham@gmail.com 2006-08-22, 1:14 pm |
| If I understand your situation correctly, you have a linux file server
in a primarily Windows environment. If that is the case, you should
look into either the built in backup utilities in Windows
(Ntbackup.exe) or a third party solution such as Acronis True Image, if
you want something a bit more advanced. Either of these products are
capable of saving their output files to a network storage location,
including your Samba server.
I use a combined linux / Windows domain for a somewhat larger company
(100 employees), and I suggest not trying to use Cygwin as you are
suggesting. At one point I used rsync and Cygwin to synchronize files
between our primary and backup locations. The performance was sorely
lacking.
Nowak wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I need to back up about 15 computers in my company. These are rather
> notebooks that employees take home after work; connected to a 100Mbit
> ethernet network.
>
> Typical notebook data is:
> * My Documents folder: hundreds of small, rarely changing files,
> * the MS Outlook data file (1GB-5GB): a large file changing every hour.
>
> I've got to use a Linux server from IBM with about 80GB free space. The
> server already a Samba share (so called "common disk").
>
> I would like to have the backup data on the server build automatically
> and periodically. History of the files would be very welcome to return
> to the correct version after getting the backup updated.
>
> My (weak) solutions are:
> 1.
> * share all the files/folders on XP machines read-only,
> * make the server download current version every few hours removing
> the previous, maybe having calculated delta before (with xdelta)
>
> Disadvantages:
> needs transfering whole Outlook files.
>
> 2.
> * install rsync on XP machines and sync to the server.
>
> Disadvantages:
> no builtin delta managenent.
>
> 3.
> * install rdiff-backup with cygwin on windows machines
> * have them synchronized with the server regularly
>
> Disadvantages:
> needs installing new software on each XP machine.
>
> Advantages:
> uses rsync-like transfer and builds incremental delta-organized history
> of resources.
>
> Problems:
> I would need to transmit a copy of the large file, because it is
> probably non-stop opened. So a windows Scheduled Task would have to copy
> the file to be transferred.
>
> =======
>
> Can I ask you for comments or ideas (any thoughts are welcome)?
>
> Best Regards,
> Tomasz Nowak
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| Andrew 2006-08-23, 1:17 am |
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