Backing up several Windows machines to a Linux server

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Sat Jan 22 05:07:16 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 21:01, Kam Leo wrote:

> How about using Window's own backup utility.  Just save the backups to
> a networked drive (samba?).  You can even create a script to
> automatically perform the backup.

That works but you have to set the schedule up on each machine and
it takes a lot of disk space.  Backuppc will collapse all identical
files (whether from different runs on the same machine or from different
machines) into a single copy so it is practical to keep several weeks
of backups of all your machines online all the time.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com





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