i've seen a number of solutions for backing up windows hosts to an
openbsd backup server. there are ~50 windows hosts to backup with an
average of ~10 GB of stuff on each machine. for my purposes a key
feature of such a solution is that it makes FULL backups of the windows
hosts that can be used to replace faulty hard drives with working
bootable replacement drives.
the solutions i've seen offered on openbsd lists and elsewhere are
- amanda w/ cygwin
- rsync w/ cygwin
- bacula
- backuppc
- boxbackup
if anyone has experience with these programs and can vouch for their
ease of use in the aforementioned context, i would like to hear about
it. do let me know if i've missed any good ones that are not already listed.
i am to understand that backuppc cannot backup locked windows files nor
can you generate full bootable restores, so it's out of the running
pretty much off the bat. figured i'd mention it anyways...
cheers,
jake
