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[wim DC]

Hey,

I am looking for backup software, incremental preferred, which I will be using to back up the entire windows drive, and some other drives with just some files on. Nothing special.

But I'm also looking for the software to run on linux, in case windows is really f***ed up and won't even boot anymore. So I can throw in a boot cd from linux, pick "try linux without installing", then I install the software using the isntall file I previously downloaded. And then this could/should recover be able to recover all the drives.

Currently I'm looking at http://www.areca-backup.org/
It can be used on both windows and linux, but I'm wondering, will the linux version be able to work with the windows backup files?
Or if anyone has experience with another piece of software wich is capable of doing the same, please let me know.

[Alexander]

If your live distribution has the ability to read NTFS partitions (i.e. the common NTFS-3G package likely to be included) then your mounted Windows drive will appear as a pile of common files and can be safely transferred to any backup partition or media.

The common way to do this however would be to use RSYNC and actually may not require many command line arguments, as long as you have an able backup partition or drive to sync your data to.
i.e.

#a archive (preserve any and all attributes or symlinks)
#z zlib (compress data before transferring, and decompress afterwards to speed up backup)
#h (human readable output)
#--progress (provide progress)
rsync -azh --progress /media/windows_c_partition /mnt/backup_location

I am sure both your solutions should perform the similar things, although RSYNC can be a great tool if you read up on how to use it.
rsync(1) - Linux man page

Edited by Alexander, 18 May 2011 - 02:37 PM.
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