Remus,
I think there have been reports here of problems both with using
rdiff-backup via samba (smb) and, independently, to a Windows
destination. By contrast, backup from Windows to Linux via ssh is well
tested and reliable - except perhaps (others may know better) when
restoring Windows ACLs.
You might like to look at my TimeDicer project
http://www.timedicer.co.uk, this uses rdiff-backup and is designed for
local network data backup from Windows with an option for secondary
offsite backup. It uses a special-purpose server based on Ubuntu and
communication is by ssh. (For offsite backup of the server it uses rsync
with ssh and --link-dest.) For file recovery it includes rdiffWeb.
An alternative is JBackpack http://www.nongnu.org/jbackpack/, this has
options to use ssh or smb for communication.
Dominic
On 06/08/2014 06:01, Stephen Butler wrote:
Hi all,
I've just started experimenting with rdiff-backup and have it working
fine in the following way.
local backup
rdiff-backup c:\source c:\dest
network backup using mapped network drive on windows 7 to our
networked backup server.
rdiff-backup c:\source z:\dest
The network computer is microcore linux, running samba shares for our
backups.
I'm wondering if there is advantages in sending the rdiff backup from
windows to the linux server via ssh ?
I had hopped that I would find information about this at this page.
http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/BackupFromWindowsToLinux
But the page is deleted, Can anyone perhaps refer me to a page that
explains the advantages if any and how to set this up ?
Thanks,
Remus.
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