Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

From	Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients
Date	2016-08-08 22:10 +0200
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Hi, Darac.

On 03/08/16 05:49, Darac Marjal wrote:

>> I'm thinking deploy a Debian backup server using Dirvish (which is based
>> on rsync --- indeed, we have packaged it in Debian). On previous
>> occasions I implemented these solutions seamlessly with GNU/Linux
>> clients, but now I would like add Windows clients.
>>
>> The idea of using Dirvish is because I had a very good experience.
>> Besides using rsync with hard links for backups of files that do not
>> change from backup to the next allows a considerable saving of disk
>> space.
>>
>> But to use Dirvish with Windows clients I will need to install an SSH
>> server. I had thought that an alternative would be to use Cygwin, but
>> was looking for documentation and I have not found any uniform process
>> to install and configure a Cygwin SSH server on Windows.
>>
>> I would like to know if anyone has had any experience in this regard
>> that could share.

> Can I recommend BackupPC (also in Debian), which performs similar
> de-duplication to dirvish (hard links between identical files with
> optional compression as well), but can pull files from computers using
> rsync, ftp or, relevant to you, SMB. That is, it can backup Windows
> clients without any client software being installed on them.
> 
> Obviously, SMB will probably be slower than rsync as you'll need to pull
> every file every time, but you may find that's preferable to trying to
> get rsync installed on your Windows machines.

Thanks for the recommendation. I hadn't the opportunity to use BackupPC,
but I will investigate it.

As I said in another message of this thread, I thought that an
alternative could be to mount on the Debian server the filesystem for
the Windows client using Samba and then doing rsync against the mount
point, but I'm not sure how efficient it can be. We also have security
implications as the backup server and the Windows computer are in
different offices, so the backup would be over the Internet.


Thanks for your reply.

Kind regards,
Daniel

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Debian server for backups of Windows clients Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-08-02 23:20 +0200
  Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-08-03 05:30 +0200
    Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-08-08 20:30 +0200
      Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-08-09 05:30 +0200
        Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-08-10 01:30 +0200
          Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-08-10 04:00 +0200
            Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 21:00 +0200
              Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-09-09 21:50 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 23:20 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-09-11 14:30 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-09-10 00:10 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-09-11 14:10 +0200
              Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-09-10 05:40 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-10 06:20 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu> - 2016-09-10 07:30 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-09-10 14:50 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-09-10 16:30 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-10 16:50 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-09-10 17:00 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-09-10 17:40 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-10 19:40 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu> - 2016-09-11 07:50 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-09-10 08:20 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2016-09-11 04:30 +0200
            Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-09-09 21:50 +0200
              Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-09-10 05:50 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2016-09-11 04:30 +0200
                Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-09-11 05:10 +0200
  Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2016-08-03 10:40 +0200
    Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-08-10 01:40 +0200
      Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2016-08-11 18:50 +0200
        Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2016-08-11 19:00 +0200
  Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-08-08 11:10 +0200
    Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-08-08 22:10 +0200
      Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-08-09 05:30 +0200
        Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Mike McGinn <mikemcginn@mcginnweb.net> - 2016-08-09 15:40 +0200
    Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2016-08-08 23:40 +0200
      Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-08-09 03:20 +0200
  Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients Joel Wirāmu Pauling <joel@aenertia.net> - 2016-08-10 02:20 +0200

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