On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 14:24:30 +0530, Siju George wrote: >On 1/6/07, Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 >> > I didn't use it because of this Problem. > >http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=12189500 > >The Bacula author Kern Sibbald said in the above link that it would a >feature in the future but I have not followed up to see if it was >implemented. > >> - backuppc >> > >I use this on OpenBSD 4.0/amd64 to backup OpenBSD/FreeBSD/Debian/MS Windows > >but it suffers from the limitations said in > >http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/limitations.html > >More over it is not in 4.0 ports. > >Andreas Volges sent it to ports@ after he got a few enquiries about this port. >( he was kind enough to send me privately 3.9 port too 6 months back ) > >> - 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 have no experience with other software you mentioned :-( > >> 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... >> > >Yup! I am also on the lookout for a solution to do this. > >I was looking for some sort of setup that can clone an entire >partition and may be share the images using some sort of version >control. > >Some one sent me > >http://alma.ch/blogs/bahut/2005/04/cloning-xp-with-linux-and-ntfsclone.html > >but it is not feasible since it requiresa reboot :-( >
There is also G4U. It is based on NetBSD and will backup an entire drive with whatever OS to an ftp server or it can do partitions individually. I needed to do a recovery backup for my wife's daughter and used it to snapshot an IBM win2k that was a virgin install + the minimum app set she needed, so I tried it. I used the suggested empty space nulling suggested on the G4U website plus the max compression available. It backed up a 20GB HDD in about 90 minutes (partitioned C and D drives) and restored on test to an 80GB drive (looking like a 20GB afterwards, well it does use dd!, but you could use partition tragic I think) in about 45 min. She has a copy on a dvd now so that I can use it for an ftp->G4U recovery if needed. Beats reinstalling 2k and remembering all the configs, passwords and app settings. Really keen folk could redo this on OpenBSD if they had the need and I also wished there was a way in the G4U cd to save just the boot track etc etc. I don't need it enough to bother doing it though. It was pretty easy really, doing what was needed. CD ISO's and fd images on g4U website. Reasonable docs too. HTH Rod/ >From the land "down under": Australia. Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?
