Topic: Remote server backups from Windows Network

[shawnfenwick]

Hello all,
I have several school systems that I take care of. I would like to use an SME server at each school site to backup other server data (from Windows 200x server boxes) and teacher desktop (Windows 98, 2000, XP) data to. Then do a secure login to the SME backup server remotely on a periodic basis to pull the data to a remote backup offsite server.
I could probably do this manually, but what about automation and restore? Can I use I-bays on the local backup server?
The remote (offsite) server would be a Win32 machine, probably Windows 2003 server.
Sure would like some help. Don't know where to start, really.
Thanks in advance,
-Shawn

[Brenno]

You can use Cygwin/OpenSSH on the windows machines and then create a batch file (which you can schedule in Windows Scheduler for automation) which will backup the Windows PCs to your SME box via rsync.  You could then use a similar approach (though in reverse,) to backup your SME server to the remote Windows server.

Data restore is simply a matter of reversing the direction in your batch files (swapping the source and destination.)

Too many details to get into here, but it works (I use it here) and there's a tonne of great information on the web about how to set it up.  Most generic Windows > Linux rysnc backup scenarios and instructions will work for SME.

[CKConsulting]

Check out BackupPC
You can give users rights to restore (Nice web interface)
Works great, then I use rsync for offsite.

I use 1ghz pc's $125
250gig IDE harddrives $130
SME 6.01-01 updated with SMEplus
BackupPC

Rick