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An Automated Reliable Backup Solution

Issue 153

From Issue #153
January 2007

Jan 01, 2007  By Andrew De Ponte
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Creating an unattended, encrypted, redundant, network backup solution using Linux, Duplicity and COTS hardware.
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Duplicity for Windows

Nic Sandfield's picture
Submitted by Nic Sandfield (not verified) on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 16:44.

Those with Windows clients should check out the wonderful duplicati implementation

Actually, you will also have

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 15:31.

Actually, you will also have the added complication of file system issues if backing up the forked HFS+ file system on the Mac to the single fork file system on the Linux box.

Dave from nanovor game

I was not able to covery every aspect.

Kevin Horn's picture
Submitted by Kevin Horn (not verified) on Sun, 05/24/2009 - 20:29.

I was not able to covery every aspect. Getting it working on Mac OS X is pretty close to what is required for getting it working on Linux. However, Windows is a completely different experience, it required a huge amount of work on my part and I have not had a chance to write it all up yet in final form. Work has been consuming most of my time as of late, but I am still trying to get something out to help people like yourself.
Kevin Horn - club penguin

awesome

Neal's picture
Submitted by Neal (not verified) on Sun, 03/18/2007 - 13:35.

This article is fantastic. Great work. Just what I needed to jumpstart my move to this solution without having to learn too much before I get it working.

Thanks again.

-N

Any updates on sourcing of components?

gmaya's picture
Submitted by gmaya on Fri, 01/12/2007 - 23:27.

Andrew:
Are there any updates on sourcing of components and their features?

I started by looking at

Cristiano's picture
Submitted by Cristiano on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 11:16.

I started by looking at small form-factor motherboards that I might use. I had used Mini-ITX motherboards in a number of other projects and knew that there was close to full Linux support for it. Given that this project did not require a fast CPU, I decided on the EPIA Mini-ITX ML8000A motherboard, which has an 800MHz CPU, a 100Mb network interface and one 32-bit PCI slot built in to it.

Unclear

adeponte's picture
Submitted by adeponte on Tue, 01/30/2007 - 02:35.

I am having difficulty understanding what you are specifically referring to. If you are referreing to the hardware and the functionality of it, not much has change since the article was released. If not, please drop me an e-mail at cyphactor@socal.rr.com with further questions.

Is something missing....?

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Submitted by PatrickT (not verified) on Fri, 12/15/2006 - 10:28.

When I read this article I was lead to believe that since the author has "12 computers, which run a combinations of Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Losing my work is unacceptable!" we were going to a see a solution that provided for backup of all the OSs he listed. Unfortunately it appears, only Linux like OSs are supported. Foiled again!

Patrick

Try BackupPC

Muyiwa Taiwo's picture
Submitted by Muyiwa Taiwo (not verified) on Tue, 04/17/2007 - 09:47.

You may want to check out BackupPC here. I've done a write-up here about integrating Windows Active Directory clients with the BackupPC server.

Limitations of Reality

adeponte's picture
Submitted by adeponte on Tue, 01/30/2007 - 02:44.

You are correct, when you did read the article it did lead you to beleive I have 12 computers running a variety of operating systems Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. The limitations of reality are that there is a word limit for articles. Hence I was not able to covery every aspect. Getting it working on Mac OS X is pretty close to what is required for getting it working on Linux. However, Windows is a completely different experience, it required a huge amount of work on my part and I have not had a chance to write it all up yet in final form (if I can remember all that I did). Work has been consuming most of my time as of late, but I am still trying to get something out to help people like yourself. My ultimate goal is to expand this current solution into a more complete feature filled solution that is pretty trivial to setup. Sadly it isn't there yet, but it is on the back burner. If you have any questions feel free to e-mail me at cyphactor@socal.rr.com.

Actually, you will also have

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 01/11/2008 - 18:15.

Actually, you will also have the added complication of file system issues if backing up the forked HFS+ file system on the Mac to the single fork file system on the Linux box.

Backup for Windows

Tabare Perez's picture
Submitted by Tabare Perez (not verified) on Wed, 02/14/2007 - 12:28.

Maybe a solution for your Windows machine is a free software called Cobian Backup (http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm). It works very well.

Best regards.
Tabare

Rsync backup for Windows to a Linux server

Alan's picture
Submitted by Alan (not verified) on Tue, 02/27/2007 - 08:08.

Not that Rsync is the best solution out there(I do really like the duplicity backup solution outlined above)there is a way to use Cygwin and Rsync to a Linux server.
Check it out here http://www.gaztronics.net/rsync.php I have not tried it, but I may if I cannot get Duplicity to play well with Cygwin

Try using this page--Running Duplicity in Cygwin

Alan's picture
Submitted by Alan (not verified) on Mon, 02/26/2007 - 23:54.

I haven't set this up yet, but tomorrow's the day. I will try to post to let you know how it goes. See this site for instructions on running duplicity in Cygwin. I don't see why it wouldn't work.... http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2006/04/03/duplicity-042-on-cygwin/

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