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Posted by
Cliff
on Thu Jul 15, 1999 06:53 PM
from the does-this-exist? dept.
from the does-this-exist? dept.
drix asks:
"Like many I'm running a Linux gateway between my
home network and cable internet connection. Naturally, I'd
like it if my Linux server, 4 Win 98 boxes, and
iMac could do a nightly backup. The problem is I only have
one tape drive, which is, of course, situated in the
server. So my question is what software exists that, a)
runs on Linux, b) exists in a client server form, where
the server runs a "backup daemon" that each client
connects to to backup its respective hard disk each night,
and c) has clients available for Windows and optionally
Mac? I guess the analogous NT ware would be Seagate
Backup Exec, which runs on an NT server and polls NT
workstations nightly for any changed files, and then uses
delta file compression to zip those changes to the server's
tape drive. I don't need anything that complicated, but I
must have the basic ability to move the files."
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backup programs for Linux (Score:3)
Backups
http://www.amnda.org/ - Amanda
ftp://ftp.zn-gmbh.com/pub/linux/ - afbackup
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~jmelski/burt/ - Burt
http://www.estinc.com/features.html - BRU
http://www.estinc.com/qsdr.html - Quickstart
http://www.unitrends.com/bp.html - Backup Professional
http://www.unitrends.com/ctar.html - CTAR
http://www.unitrends.com/ctarnet.html - CTAR:NET
http://www.unitrends.com/pcpara.html - PC ParaChute
Commercial:
http://www.arkeia.com/ - Arkeia
http://www.legato.com/Products/html/legato_netw
http://feral.com/networker.html - Legato Networker server
Now not all handle multiple OS's, etc. But of the freeones it was afbackup or amanda (or both) that did.
good luck.
http://www.seifried.org/lasg/
Redefine the problem (Score:3)
Instead of asking how your Linux server can back up Windows and Mac clients, why not ask how much you can move from your Windows and Mac systems to the Linux server?!
After my Windows system crashed yet again, I reinstalled the system (which, thanks to Toshiba, formats the disk so I lose any files which survived the crash) I set it up to use a network login - my "profile" and personal files are stored on my Linux system in an ext2 partition... and are backed up nightly. Likewise, I reinstalled all of my applications to a SAMBA "network" drive. I then changed the permissions so most of the files were read-only - no more Word viruses.
This isn't perfect, but I'm a lot more comfortable with my Window system mounting network drives from my Linux box than my Linux box trying to SMBMOUNT the Windows system for backups.
P.S., I use Amanda.