On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 06:12:33PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
Hi all! I'm thinking deploy a Debian backup server using Dirvish (which is based on rsync --- indeed, we have packaged it in Debian). On previous occasions I implemented these solutions seamlessly with GNU/Linux clients, but now I would like add Windows clients. The idea of using Dirvish is because I had a very good experience. Besides using rsync with hard links for backups of files that do not change from backup to the next allows a considerable saving of disk space. But to use Dirvish with Windows clients I will need to install an SSH server. I had thought that an alternative would be to use Cygwin, but was looking for documentation and I have not found any uniform process to install and configure a Cygwin SSH server on Windows. I would like to know if anyone has had any experience in this regard that could share.
Can I recommend BackupPC (also in Debian), which performs similar de-duplication to dirvish (hard links between identical files with optional compression as well), but can pull files from computers using rsync, ftp or, relevant to you, SMB. That is, it can backup Windows clients without any client software being installed on them.
Obviously, SMB will probably be slower than rsync as you'll need to pull every file every time, but you may find that's preferable to trying to get rsync installed on your Windows machines.
Thanks in advance. Kind regards, Daniel
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