More Backup Questions

[Eric Katherman]

I would definately make the employees store their data on a central
share somewhere.  If I had to backup individual computers I would go
mad.  You can setup a samba server and make sepearte folders for each
person if that is a concern, then you just run a backup routine on the
fileserver.

On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 09:38, Gordon Chamberlin wrote:
> 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.
-- 
Eric Katherman <vaiod@berloy.com>