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I can verify that the Samba export + standard windows backup tool works |
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well for windows workstations. It's cheap (as cheap as windows can |
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be- itcomes with Windows) and easy to set up. |
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For something more specialised, I recommend Bacula (www.bacula.org). It |
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was easier to configure than Amanda, has better documentation, can handle |
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tape backups much better imho and is still actively being developed. |
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Just my 0.02 Zim dollars. |
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Andrew |
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On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Marco Wesselgren wrote: |
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> > Hello, |
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> > The company I work for has a network of Windows XP computers. There is |
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> > also a server that is used for backups, also running on Windows XP. Now, |
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> > they want to use the server as an e-mail gateway too. I am running Gentoo |
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> > for almost a year now and thought of using instead of Windows XP on the |
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> > server. There is only one problem: how can Windows XP save its backups on |
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> > a Linux system? I mean, at the moment, there is no problem, cause the |
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> > server runs on Windows XP too, but can I use the same technology to make |
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> > backups with a Linux-server? |
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> You could use Amanda (http://www.amanda.org) to automate your backups, |
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> it can handle backups of Windows hosts. |
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Andrew Cooks |
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TechTeam TechTeam -- "We make it work." |
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Computer Science dept. |
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University of Pretoria |
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Stimulate your melon for a change! Use Linux! - http://tlug.up.ac.za |
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"If 44,000 employees of Sun can work with StarOffice, and can exchange any |
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document with their customers, there is no good argument not to do it" |
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- Richard Seibt, CEO of Suse Linux |
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