Backup Soloution

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I Currently have a backup soloution but its not meeting my needs.

Firstly I have quite a few computers in the house.

I currently have a Linux Box running Fedora 12 & samba. with 4TB space.

current problems with this:
1. Cant find a an auomated solution to backup drives.
2. Its Very Slow. getting 100mb speeds on a 1GB network.

So My idea was to turn my Linux Box into a Windows 7 Manchine with Syncback (use this at work) which can automate my backups from the following manchines by sharing there drives out

Win7 #1
Imac OSX
Linux

However i also want a way to FTP/transfer to the win7 Backup Manchine to do manual backups of odd files

For the following manchines
Macbook
Win7 Laptop (Business)
Other Boxes.

Any suggestions on how to do this?:confused:
 
A combination of rsync (moving data), rsnapshot (incremental backups) and cron (running scripts every n minutes) should do it, whatever it may be.

Do you want to backup the Macbook, Win7 Laptop (Business), Other Boxes to the 4tb fedora desktop? If so, you can share the volumes that you want backed up as read-only, mount them on the fedora desktop, and back them up as if they were local.

If you want incremental backups, rsnapshot is excellent. I would suggest creating a folder on the server for each machine, and use rsync to pull data off each of the machines every n minutes. You can then maintain an up-to-date copy of all the data on the server, and make incremental backups from that folder.

Rsync will pull data off OSX, linux or windows. Either run it as a service, or tunnel it over ssh depending on required security.

For occasional files, I've made a folder called "watch" on the server. This is shared read-write using samba, and mounted on a windows laptop. Anything can be copied into it, and files are then moved around on the server with rsync.
 
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