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backing up PC's to SME?

Offline pauljclarke

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backing up PC's to SME?
« on: December 17, 2007, 10:44:35 PM »
Hi,

Is there a way to back up my PC's (XP & Vista[Pha!]) to my SME box?

I'd like it to be on the fly - so spots a PC on the network and then looks for changed files and backes them up - or somthing like that. But main thing is that PC's don't have to be on over night or at a set time...

Thanks

Paul  :-?

Offline Boris

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Re: backing up PC's to SME?
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2007, 01:57:19 AM »

search for backuppc contrib :-P

Its exactly what doctor ordered for you.
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Offline arnie25

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Re: backing up PC's to SME?
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2007, 07:51:27 AM »
It will do the job, if you map network drive to sme server and tick to syncronize
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Offline mmccarn

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Re: backing up PC's to SME?
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2007, 03:03:11 PM »
Here's a note on how to back up local windows shares using Affa: http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_Windows_Computers_Using_Affa

(And here's a link to the main Affa documentation: http://wiki.contribs.org/Affa)