More Backup Questions

Gordon Chamberlin plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
15 Nov 2002 09:38:56 -0700


Well, I'm finally convinced that tape backup machines are evil.

I'm considering going without a tape backup and do IDE hard drives or
perhaps even writable DVDs.  (Do they make rewritable DVDs yet?)

I have to backup windows workstations.  There are about five of them.
I'm going to backup "My Documents" and Outlook email.  

I don't want to create shares on each workstation as they'd be visible
by all.  I know that I could reduce permissions to make the shares
readable by a single user/machine.  

I'd also like to only backup changed files, and encryption would be
nice.

Either client pushing to server or server pulling from client is fine. 
Right now, I think it would be easier to run something on the client
that pushes data to a server.

My question is:
Does anyone know of a program that does this: backup changed windows
files to a remote linux machine that I can execute at defined times?

I'm willing to run samba on the linux server.

I realize this may be off-topic as I am trying to do things on windows
machines.  Just wondering any of you have tried to solve a similar
problem.

Thanks.
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  Gordon Chamberlin             Software Architect
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