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.

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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