From: stuckeyneila1982 <bac...@ba...> - 2013-02-27 20:17:53
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I have an small buisness and looking for a easy multi platform backup system. I know how to get around the cli on windows and ubuntu/debian. I have less than 12 computers all running win 7 pro except for the raid 1 file server running ubuntu 12.04 LTS server. Im looking for a solution to backup all pc's to the server. I have tried getting Amanda to work it was a no go. Tried Bacula and couldnt get that to work either. was thinking about rsync and delta copy. But i would like to make snapshots of all pc's if possible. I guess if i have to i could run clonezilla or ddrescue on each computer but would prefer to do a daily snapshot of all PC in office. I cant seem to get it in my crews head to not surf too much the internet and get malware. I am willing to pay for a solution if its worth it. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by stu...@gm... via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@ba.... +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
From: John H. <jha...@co...> - 2013-02-27 21:18:57
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I did something similar a number of years ago comparing bacula and backuppc and found that backuppc was much easier to set up. You don't need to install any client software on the windows machines as you can just make file shares availabel to the backuppc server. I do recommend that you look at http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/ if you need a good way of backing up windows clients via rsync and including any open files on the windows PC. While BackupPC works very well for backing up the data on Windows computers but it is not able to do full metal restores of a windows machine as far as I am aware. Installing it on your ubuntu server is easy as it is available through apt-get. I would recommend mounting /var/lib/backuppc on a separate partition or lvm volume though as it makes it lot easier if you need to add more disk space or move it to another machine. On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:26:58 -0800 stuckeyneila1982 <bac...@ba...> wrote: > I have an small buisness and looking for a easy multi platform backup > system. I know how to get around the cli on windows and > ubuntu/debian. I have less than 12 computers all running win 7 pro > except for the raid 1 file server running ubuntu 12.04 LTS server. Im > looking for a solution to backup all pc's to the server. I have tried > getting Amanda to work it was a no go. Tried Bacula and couldnt get > that to work either. was thinking about rsync and delta copy. But i > would like to make snapshots of all pc's if possible. I guess if i > have to i could run clonezilla or ddrescue on each computer but would > prefer to do a daily snapshot of all PC in office. I cant seem to > get it in my crews head to not surf too much the internet and get > malware. I am willing to pay for a solution if its worth it. > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by stu...@gm... via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@ba.... > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > Bac...@li... > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- John Habermann IT Officer Cook Shire Council 10 Furneaux St Cooktown 4895 ph 40820577 |
From: Les M. <les...@gm...> - 2013-02-27 21:21:54
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:26 PM, stuckeyneila1982 <bac...@ba...> wrote: > I have an small buisness and looking for a easy multi platform backup system. I know how to get around the cli on windows and ubuntu/debian. I have less than 12 computers all running win 7 pro except for the raid 1 file server running ubuntu 12.04 LTS server. Im looking for a solution to backup all pc's to the server. I have tried getting Amanda to work it was a no go. Tried Bacula and couldnt get that to work either. was thinking about rsync and delta copy. But i would like to make snapshots of all pc's if possible. I guess if i have to i could run clonezilla or ddrescue on each computer but would prefer to do a daily snapshot of all PC in office. I cant seem to get it in my crews head to not surf too much the internet and get malware. I am willing to pay for a solution if its worth it. Was that a question? Backuppc won't restore windows to bare metal, but it can do nightly copies of any/all data files so you can restore on top of an old clonezilla image or a fresh windows install. Personally, I'd recommend a separate server that could also keep some history of your file server but it is easy enough to try out on your existing ubuntu system - just install the package and ask questions here if you need help with something specific. -- Les Mikesell les...@gm... |
From: stuckeyneila1982 <bac...@ba...> - 2013-02-28 21:35:31
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thanks guys. Im not sure if i like the idea of sharing folders on every computer just to backup. i really wanted bacula to work but just couldnt get it to go. I see some great uses and user praises for bacula. Anyone have any experience with Nova backup server or dataserver. Its expensive but im willing to pay if its good. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by stu...@gm... via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@ba.... +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
From: stuckeyneila1982 <bac...@ba...> - 2013-02-28 21:41:10
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i like the idea of nova backup being able to install on ubuntu and windows as well. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by stu...@gm... via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@ba.... +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
From: Zach U. <zun...@gm...> - 2013-02-28 23:33:27
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At my last job I used http://www.druva.com/insync/ to backup laptops. I had the server running on centos. On Feb 28, 2013 4:44 PM, "stuckeyneila1982" < bac...@ba...> wrote: > i like the idea of nova backup being able to install on ubuntu and windows > as well. > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by stu...@gm... via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@ba.... > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > Bac...@li... > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > |
From: Les M. <les...@gm...> - 2013-03-01 00:16:07
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:01 PM, stuckeyneila1982 <bac...@ba...> wrote: > thanks guys. Im not sure if i like the idea of sharing folders on every computer just to backup. Pretty much every windows machine has hidden admin shares for each drive (c$, etc.) by default. Have you disabled them? Otherwise all you need is the administrator password. > i really wanted bacula to work but just couldnt get it to go. I see some great uses and user praises for bacula. Anyone have any experience with Nova backup server or dataserver. Its expensive but im willing to pay if its good. If you don't mind setting something on the target machines, you can use rsync, with or without ssh. You aren't likely to find anything that can hold as much history in the same amount of disk space as backuppc, free or not. -- Les Mikesell les...@gm... |
From: stuckeyneila1982 <bac...@ba...> - 2013-03-05 15:57:08
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Ok tried using backuppc but could not get the backup to launch would not establish a ping. Tried the backuppc.conf ping modification did not work. I did find Ur backup for Windows it looks new only on version 1.1 but its working well. It sets up a client install and server install. I had to install client and server on one machine but thatis ok for now. Looks like they are working on .deb package so i will prob use this for now until i can install on my Ubuntu file server. Ur Backup can do live image backups and single file backups. I tested the bare metal image restore and it worked well also restored basic files without issues. Its a really simple server and client backup system but i like it. Hopefully it will get some open source support and grow its kind of spartan now but does what i need. I don't like having the client and server on one machine but until the .deb package is completed that is what i will do. Still thinking of going with nova backup server for Ubuntu but it doesn't look like it gets many updates. Also requested free trial for the Nova backup server for Ubuntu but sales never got back with a trial version i could test for Ubuntu. I have emailed them several times they said they would allow a trial but wont respond to my emails anymore :( +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by stu...@gm... via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@ba.... +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
From: Les M. <les...@gm...> - 2013-03-05 16:50:21
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On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Michael Stowe <ms...@ch...> wrote: > > As far as I can make out, you are posting to a BackupPC list, but talking > about a completely different backup system, and don't actually have a > question. I think he is posting on the backup central forum without realizing that the section he is in is forwarded to the backuppc mail list only. And if he can't get ping to work or follow the directions to disable the check there's probably nothing anyone could do to help him with backuppc anyway. -- Les Mikesell les...@gm... |
From: Holger P. <wb...@pa...> - 2013-03-06 02:47:31
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Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2013-03-05 10:50:13 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] multi platform backup system]: > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Michael Stowe > <ms...@ch...> wrote: > > > > As far as I can make out, you are posting to a BackupPC list, but talking > > about a completely different backup system, and don't actually have a > > question. > > I think he is posting on the backup central forum without realizing > that the section he is in is forwarded to the backuppc mail list only. > And if he can't get ping to work or follow the directions to disable > the check there's probably nothing anyone could do to help him with > backuppc anyway. or with any other backup solution, for that matter :-). Regards, Holger |