Backup my Linux Box to a Windows Server

you can use amanda server and backup the linux box to the windows. or if you prefer it something loess or more painful [whatever] , set up a samba server in the linux machine and do a dump of the linux machine and then copy it to windows...

If the server can be shutdown (because tghis program doesn't support live imaging - meaning imaging of the PC while it's running the OS), I suggest Clonezilla. That can be used stand-alone or over a network to push images out to a PC.

You could also setup a cronjob and just use dd as an alternative method.

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It doesn't really matter what kind of storage device you backup to, as long as it is mounted as *rw (read/write).

For example, you could mount the windows sharepoint with SAMBA or NFS, and then from there my fav methods would be tar (for particular parts of the filesystem), or a great fav of mine for doing very quick updates to your single backup, rsync. rsync is only going to take the delta of the stuff you backup (whether that be the entire "/" or just parts of your filesystem).

for backing up the entire system, I would prolly use rsync, back up each individual filesystem separately (if you have mounted them on separate partitions, otherwise, do it all as one backup), and use NFS to mount the resource on the windows box.

Here's a copy of the rsync that I use to keep a current image of the Slackware-current, which I run every Wednesday evening, and keep on one of my distribution machines that is NFS exported:

#!/bin/sh
rsync -avz --delete --inplace --partial \
rsync://ftp.slackware.no/linux/slackware/slackware64-current \
/usr/local/export/slackware/slackware64-current

It is debatable in this case, whether the "z" parameter is useful, since the distro is already compressed for the most part.

Check out the man page for rsync and you'll glean some good perspective on the arguments I've included in the command, and remember, once you complete the initial backup, the subsequent backups are only going to include the binary difference between the parts that have already been backed up and the current OS that you're backing up.

Hope that helps!

Kindest regards,

Bradley

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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

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

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

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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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