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One of the ways to backup systems in your network is to use the operating-system provided backup service to backup to an Amahi share.
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We have documented ways to conduct periodic backups in various platforms. If you have good suggestions on how to do that, please add them to this section of the wiki! (Or email it to us if you're wiki-shy)
=== Third-Party (Free) Backup Software ===There are a number of great open source or free backup programs out there that you can use absolutely free(commercial users should check license details). Here is a partial list (please feel free to add others:#[http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup] (free, no longer open source)#[http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm DriveImage XML] (Free for personal use)#[http://www.areca-backup.org/index.php Areca Backup] (Open source - GPLv2#[http://thebackupmonkey.blogspot.com/ Bonkey] (Open source - Apache 2.0)#[http://www.hiteksoftware.com/jaba/ JaBack] (Free)#[http://www.nasbackup.com/wiki/Introduction NasBackup] (Open source - no longer under active devel.)#[http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp DeltaCopy] (Open source - GPL)#[http://www.allwaysync.com/ Allway Sync] (Free for non-commercial use; some limits)#[http://www.gfi.com/backup-hm GFI Backup] (Free for non-commercial use)#[http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ BackupPC] (Open source - GPL)#[http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/ Create Synchronicity] (Open source - GPL)
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== Windows 7 Backups ==
How to needs to be completed. Go [[Win7Backups|here]] to update the page.
== Windows Vista Backups ==
Here is a quick how to on doing [[VistaBackups | periodic file backups in Windows Vista to your HDA]].
== Windows XP Backups ==
For XP Backups, visit the section for [[XPBackups | Windows XP]]
== Ubuntu Backups ==
How to backup Ubuntu clients using Ubuntu's [[Sbackup | Simple Backup]].
== Fedora Backups ==
To backup Fedora clients, the following are recommended:
* for backing up your hda shares to usbdrive see [[Rsnapshot]] for an example setup.
== Mac OS X ==
Mac OS X without Time Machine is not officially supported through automated HDA Backups at this time.
You can, however, manually copy files to an HDA shared folder.
=== Backups with SuperDuper! ===
Another backup solution is a program called [[SuperDuper!]], follow the link to see the steps and to find out about SuperDuper!.
=== Backups with SystemRescueCD ===
Backups with [[SystemRescueCD_with_Mac_OS_X | SystemRescueCD]] have been reported that they work, more info can be found by visiting the link.
=== Backups with Time Machine ===
==== SMB (Samba) ====
'''WARNING - Hack ahead!''' For Time Machine smb users only.
''Update: Recent versions of timemachine do not appear to respect the max size of the sparsebundle and will cheerfully fill up your disk. To fix this, you need a more recent version of netatalk (2.0.5+?), which has an option to tell fibs about the size of the disk, hence limiting timemachine's space consumption. Fedora 14 has netatalk 2.1.4...''
== Full Disk "Bare Metal" Backups ==Bare metal backups are no longer available as a feature in current Amahi releases on F12 & F14. Note: Older releases used the Personal Backup Appliance, or [[PBA | PBA]], with the collaboration of the PBA leader, Roland Hui. PBA is an application to do hard disk clones, backups and restores but appears to no longer be under development == Using Symantec Backup Exec ===== System Recovery 8.5 (Norton save & restore) ===
Symantec's [http://www.symantec.com/business/backup-exec-system-recovery-desktop-edition BESR] allows full system backup and restore (virtual and physical)from any hardware with restore to dissimilar hardware. Conversion from P2V or V2P can also be scheduled. Install BESR on all windows computers connected to HDA and route backup to a folder on the HDA. Remember to set permissions on destination folders. Activate VSS copy so any open files are captured, optional threatcon can be used to trigger a backup if a threat becomes widespread.
Alternatively BESR can be installed on a central windows Windows machine with agents deployed on all other windows Windows and Linux machines and using the new Linux media server agent (replaces RALUS) backup directly on the Linux HDA. This way you maintain a catalogue of all backups and can trigger them from a central console.
BESR is the enterprise windows standard for Backup and restore. Norton the consumer brand of Symantec have [http://www.symantec.com/norton/save-restore "Save & Restore"] I'm not overly familiar with this product but it replaces Norton "Ghost" in most markets. The GUI is exactly the same as BESR.
BESR is only for windows Windows machines connected to the HDA but is a great solution to protecting these machines and allows LIVE single pass backup and granular restore of files, saves doing an image and a file backup. Less space less time. An agent is available to backup Linux but another option is to boot the HDA on the recovery disk and create a cold image of the server.
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