Answers to: Backup my Linux Box to a Windows Server

Answer by Darenhadrey

Darenhadrey — Fri, 08 May 2015 07:10:46 -0400

You are utilize Samba since the transport-I recommend using tar to create the actual back-up. Tar will certainly honor the actual symlinks and store the permissions too.

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Answer by josegoldstein

josegoldstein — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 05:41:07 -0500

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Answer by RuaisLampSilog

RuaisLampSilog — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:51:42 -0400

I would suggest that since this is VM, and asuming the host is linux/unix you can simply dd the VM disks to an SMB share on the windows box. There is no easier bare metal restore than dd the image back. There also no option for incremental backup. Regards

Answer by Ron

Ron — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:05:39 -0500

CrashPlan will work. there's lots of ways to do it. rsnapshot, rsync, etc.

Answer by Jonquil

Jonquil — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:49:41 -0400

Deja Dup is capable of backing up over Samba, as is BackupPC. Additionally you can create a script that connects to Samba and backs up the specified directory, and you can set up crontab to do it automatically after a certain specified time frame has passed. Here's a link that describes one way of doing that: http://www.xjonquilx.net/2012/07/how-to-backup-your-files-over-smb-in.html

Comment by rfelsburg on JC's question

rfelsburg — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:44:47 -0400

Please accept an answer, or provide more details on what you're looking for.

Answer by SiegeX

SiegeX — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:01:47 -0400

My personal favorite tool for backing up is rsnapshot, with that you can have many many snapshots at different intervals and not take up much space due to it's use of hardlinks for files that didn't change from snapshot-to-snapshot. I have mine set to do daily snapshots and backup to my NAS, although I could have just as easily backed up to my windows box if I used something like samba to mount a share folder. However, rsnapshot doesn't really 'image' the drive which is what you seem to be looking for.

For imaging, it doesn't get much better than Acronis True Image. The home version comes with the ability to create a boot CD that allows you to do a full and/or incremental image of a drive and/or partition (including MBR). However, if you want to get automated, I believe you would have to look at the much more expensive enterprise edition.

One last suggestion would be to look at bacula, last I looked that free program does everything under the sun but I have no personal experience using it but it just might be the answer you're looking for.