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Title: Best backup program for backing up a windows drive
Post by: cattledog on February 15, 2017, 09:30:32 AM

Hi all, what is the best backup program/contib to backup a windows drive not the system drive but just a windows spare hdd on a windows 7?

Cheers in advance :-P

Title: Re: Best backup program for backing up a windows drive
Post by: Stefano on February 15, 2017, 12:14:37 PM

please, tell us exactly what's your aim :-)

IIUC, you have a SME server, an external W7 client with an addictional HD (not the system one) and you wish to make a backup of this drive with SME.. am I right?

Title: Re: Best backup program for backing up a windows drive
Post by: cattledog on February 16, 2017, 10:32:12 AM

Quote from: Stefano on February 15, 2017, 12:14:37 PM

please, tell us exactly what's your aim :-)

IIUC, you have a SME server, an external W7 client with an addictional HD (not the system one) and you wish to make a backup of this drive with SME.. am I right?

Yes this is correct if not the whole drive just a couple of folders...ie: will, house paperwork..etc

Title: Re: Best backup program for backing up a windows drive
Post by: Stefano on February 16, 2017, 11:21:41 AM

well..

assuming that the addictional disk is shared on w7 as (example) E$, a script on SME that mounts it with valid credentials, sync the desidered content on another dir and unmount the disk should do the job.

if you want something more efficient,  take a look at backuppc (which is an overkill here IMO) or, if you wish to try it and report back, take a look at urbackup (https://www.urbackup.org/)

Title: Re: Best backup program for backing up a windows drive
Post by: hawk on February 16, 2017, 02:07:26 PM

i use a simple dos batch file on the windows machine, then run the scheduler to activate it on specific time, daily or weekly, no software needed.

hddbackup.bat

*************

@ echo off
cd\
CLS
Echo Your hard drive is being backed up and cleaned of temp files
cleanmgr /sagerun:99
echo    mapping drive L:
echo   connecting to server
echo    removing old map
net use L: /d
net use L: \\172.16.10.2\John /persistent:yes
echo (ip address of your sme server)
echo   Found Server
robocopy "C:\Users\john\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird" l:\thunderbird\ /e /R:2 /w:2
robocopy "C:\Users\John\Downloads" l:\downloads\ /e /purge
robocopy "C:\Users\John\Pictures" l:\pictures\ /e
robocopy "C:\Users\John\Documents\data2017" l:\documents\data2017\ /e /purge
robocopy "C:\Users\John\Desktop" l:\desktop\ /e purge
net use L: /d
exit

*******************

hope this could help
thanks
john

Title: Re: Best backup program for backing up a windows drive
Post by: Jean-Philippe Pialasse on February 17, 2017, 07:38:19 AM

also have a look there : https://wiki.contribs.org/BackupPC#Backup_a_Windows_Client_with_rsync
great if you want to be able to have multiple versions, and restore a file on demand

Title: Re: Best backup program for backing up a windows drive
Post by: cattledog on February 17, 2017, 10:41:05 AM

Quote from: hawk on February 16, 2017, 02:07:26 PM

i use a simple dos batch file on the windows machine, then run the scheduler to activate it on specific time, daily or weekly, no software needed.

hddbackup.bat

*************

@ echo off
cd\
CLS
Echo Your hard drive is being backed up and cleaned of temp files
cleanmgr /sagerun:99
echo    mapping drive L:
echo   connecting to server
echo    removing old map
net use L: /d
net use L: \\172.16.10.2\John /persistent:yes
echo (ip address of your sme server)
echo   Found Server
robocopy "C:\Users\john\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird" l:\thunderbird\ /e /R:2 /w:2
robocopy "C:\Users\John\Downloads" l:\downloads\ /e /purge
robocopy "C:\Users\John\Pictures" l:\pictures\ /e
robocopy "C:\Users\John\Documents\data2017" l:\documents\data2017\ /e /purge
robocopy "C:\Users\John\Desktop" l:\desktop\ /e purge
net use L: /d
exit

*******************

hope this could help
thanks
john

Thankyou