Best options is put an SMB/NFS share for all the windows clients on your backup server.
RAID it and run $whatever backup tools you wish on the exports. If you need OS level backups, the best way is to use ISCSI mounts served from the NAS/SAN to be the root of the windows machines. On 3 August 2016 at 09:12, Daniel Bareiro <daniel-lis...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi all! > > 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. > > > Thanks in advance. > > Kind regards, > Daniel > >
