RE: [BackupPC-users] wanted: Open Source disk to disk backup for Windows

[mtrisko <mt...@ze...>]

I did some searching and the closest thing I could find was Sync2NAS: 

http://sync2nas.sourceforge.net/

It's probably somewhat similar to rshapshot in functionality, but it is
designed to run on Windows.  Important to note is that it looks like it
is primarily client-based--the server is just a generic rsync server,
the sync2NAS software runs on each client.  However, since you can run
rsync as a service under cygwin, if you are only backing up Windows
clients, it might accomplish your objective.

Otherwise, all of the open source backup packages seem to be unix-based,
and I didn't find any that have been successfully tested within a cygwin
environment for the server component.  The ones most similar in scope to
BackupPC were Amanda and Bacula, but the only discussion they have of
Windows/cygwin support is for the client components.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: bac...@li...
[mailto:bac...@li...] On Behalf Of Carl
Wilhelm Soderstrom
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 8:50 PM
To: Matt Wilkie; bac...@li...
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] wanted: Open Source disk to disk backup
for Windows

On 02/18 02:05 , Matt Wilkie wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking for a backup program which is something like BackupPC but 
> runs on a Windows host. 

well, you could look into rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org/) which
isn't
anywhere near as fancy as BackupPC, but is very simple, and with the
right
tools (Perl and rsync, and some conversations with the maintainer --
he's
very responsive); could probably be made to work under Windows.

Carl Soderstrom.
-- 
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com


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