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Does anyone know a easy to set up server (or one with a quality up-to-date tutorial) that would allow me to make incremental backups to a USB hard-disk via a Ubuntu Server of my laptop? For example each night when I get home my (Windows 7, Ubuntu Desktop/Vista would be handy) laptop would send all the changed files to my server (over a network) which would then write them to a hard-disk??
Thanks in advance
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Free software for incremental backups over a network Win 7 -> USB via Ubuntu Server?
Started by bbqroast, Dec 16 2011 11:45 PM
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Posted 16 December 2011 - 11:45 PM
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Posted 17 December 2011 - 12:51 AM
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I am not sure what you mean about USB disk transfer, when you then talk about networking later on.
rsync is the de-facto syadmin tool and can run on multiple operating systems, and is a simple program that can be run under a cron job. It can back up permissions and entire directories, to filesystems in deltas (incremental.)
You can even tell it to SSH to a Windows machine on a local network, provided you have either a Windows SSH server, or SSH on cygwin:
You will require passwordless authentication if rsync+SSH is run by cron, otherwise it would prompt you for a password when unattented.
Hopefully I've pointed you in the right direction, feel free to hint better at what you wish to do.
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rsync is the de-facto syadmin tool and can run on multiple operating systems, and is a simple program that can be run under a cron job. It can back up permissions and entire directories, to filesystems in deltas (incremental.)
# opts source destination rsync -azr /home/foobar/ /mnt/bbqroastusbhdd[COLOR=#111111][FONT=Consolas]/[/FONT][/COLOR]
You can even tell it to SSH to a Windows machine on a local network, provided you have either a Windows SSH server, or SSH on cygwin:
rsync -azr /home/foobar/ root@192.168.0.123:/cygdrive/c/backup
You will require passwordless authentication if rsync+SSH is run by cron, otherwise it would prompt you for a password when unattented.
Hopefully I've pointed you in the right direction, feel free to hint better at what you wish to do.
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Posted 17 December 2011 - 12:23 PM
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Ok, so I run a SSH server on my laptop and Ubuntu Server logs in and downloads the files...
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Posted 30 December 2011 - 09:09 AM
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Ok I found a great program called Duplicati, it just logs in through SSH and uploads the files. I am on holiday so it has a about a pile of failed attempts, but that's ok.
I must say it's a really nice open source piece of software, the GUI is clean and efficient and I have had no problems with it so far.
I must say it's a really nice open source piece of software, the GUI is clean and efficient and I have had no problems with it so far.
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