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Homebrewed Online and Offsite Backup Solutions

Greetings.What are some of your online and offsite backup solutions?I am considering building my meager online backup service, but i want to make it a lot more robust. The single most limiting factor...

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I have a linux samba server setup and I have a script that runs on logon that rsyncs the files I want from all my windows PC's to the samba server. The script is part of the login routine as controlled...

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Greetings.And Samba has full support of Windows (Active Directory) file and share permissions?

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I'm working on something very similar. NTBackup is great for windows because of the Volume Shadow Copy Service.But I've been looking into HOBOCOPY (because it uses it also and doesn't put files into a...

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Greets.Rischip, so let me get this straight, you have a script which runs hobocopy. Hobocopy then uses VSS to copy the data to a set location, rather than into a BKF file. You use 7-zip to make the...

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I am working on this solution. It is not complete. I do some side work for Doctors offices and they need offsite backup due to HIPAA regulations. Most online backup services won't work due to low...

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Greetings.I would definitely like to keep up-to-date of your findings. However, i am not sure full collaboration would be the way to go, as i really do need to keep the solution purely on linux, due to...

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Re: Homebrewed Online and Offsite Backup Solutions

There should be no problem keeping the backup server on Linux. Use NTBackup to do backups on windows, then 7-zip the .BKF file. Transfer to Linux box using Rsync over SSH. In order for Rsync to work...

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Re: Homebrewed Online and Offsite Backup Solutions

I'm a big fan of keeping is simple also- if you are backing up Windows, try to use native tools and processes, and vice-versa for mac\*nix environments.For offsite backups, I've used Mozy...

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Homebrewed Online and Offsite Backup Solutions

Ok... here it goes. This is giving up my plan but it kicks ass for my local clients. I have a 20mb Cable line for download at home. This gives me enough for my client uploads. I am working with Shadow...

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Homebrewed Online and Offsite Backup Solutions

Matthew414, very ingenious solution.  But how did you set delta copy to not copy the new consolidated / collapsed image files along with the new incremental files?

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