[ale] Need advice on home back-up solution

[James P. Kinney III]

Use samba to mount all the Winders stuff. Then rsync the whole lot of it
to the Linux box. 

You could use the Linux box as the file server so the important data
files are saved on the Linux box. Then burn it to CDRWs with a script.
rsync to a separate hard drive for redundancy before the burn.

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 15:43, Bill Hamilton wrote:
> I have a RedHat 9 GNU/Linux system with a new 80GB hard drive and 
> several Windows 98SE/2000/XP machines at home in which I need to 
> automatically backup user created information.  This inludes Microsoft 
> office files, digital pictures (scattered throughout the hard drive), 
> browser favorites and web autofill forms (RoboForm or something like 
> that...my wife depends on it...I don't know).
> 
> I need a solution (probably made up of OpenSource/Free Software and 
> cmd/batch/windows scripting scripts) where each of my various Microsoft 
> based operating systems routinely backup user created information to an 
> ftp or smb server (GNU/Linux box listed above).  I do not have a tape 
> drive on each machine nor a CD Burner (however the newest upstairs Sony 
> Viao does have a DVD-R/RW burner so I could weekly pull these archives 
> off of the Linux server and burn to DVD as long as these archives are 
> less than 4.7GB each).  I do have a spare 17GB hard drive and I was 
> thinking of putting this also in the GNU/Linux box as a mirrored 
> partition just in case...probably a good idea before I go too far down 
> the road doing work on this fresh install of RH9.
> 
> What does the ALE crowd recommend?
> 
> At work we use Connected TLM network backup software and that seems to 
> work very well.  I can open it's app and restore with ease but this kind 
> of use would be icing on the cake.
> 
> Other icing or advanced needs would be:
> 
> 1.  Not have to go to each machine and manually start a backup
> 2.  Because we don't store everything in a c:\data folder then what I 
> choose should not only pick-up "My Documents", "My Pictures" "RoboForm 
> Data" but also by filename or filename extension on the hard drive. 
> 3.  Actually be a (web based) document management system. 
> 4.  Notify me of duplicate files.
> 
> I'm pretty adept with winzip command line and windows batch file writing 
> so I could hack out a generic series of scripts that should work on each 
> machine to create and transmit zips up to the server but I would like 
> for these files to be unzipped up on the GNU/Linux box.
> 
> Any suggestion welcome...
> 
> -Bill Hamilton
> 
> 
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