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Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients



Best options is put an SMB/NFS share for all the windows clients on your backup server. 

RAID it and run $whatever backup tools you wish on the exports.

If you need OS level backups, the best way is to use ISCSI mounts served from the NAS/SAN to be the root of the windows machines. 

On 3 August 2016 at 09:12, Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> 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.


Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,
Daniel



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