You have several ways Since the Amahi HDA appears as a NAS to do you network, it is a natural destination for the backups in from your HDAnetwork PCs. We break them in two: full disk (bare metal) All backups, and periodic backups. They are all initiated by the client computer on to the server. = Full Disk "Bare Metal" Backups = Each HDA now includes the Personal Backup Appliance, or PBA, with the collaboration of the PBA leader, Roland Hui. [[PBA | PBA]] is an application to do hard disk clones, backups and restores.
= Periodic File Backups =
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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One of the We have documented ways to backup systems conduct periodic backups in your network is various platforms. If you have good suggestions on how to do that, please add them to use this section of the operatingwiki! (Or email it to us if you're wiki-system provided backup service.[[Image:VistaBackups3.png | 150px | Vista Backups | align:right]]shy)
We have documented ways to do periodic backups in various platforms== Third-Party (Free) Backup Software ==There are a number of great open source or free backup programs out there that you can use free (commercial users should check license details). If you have good suggestions on how Here is a partial list (feel free to do that, please add them to this section of the wiki! (Or email it to us if you're wiki-shyothers):
Note{|!Package!License/Cost|-|[http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup]|Free, later version no longer open source|-|[http: To new users only the "Bare Metal" Backups will show in the //www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm DriveImage XML]|Free for personal use|-|[http://wikiwww.amahiareca-backup.org/index.phpAreca 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/PBABackups Amahi Personal backup-hm GFI Backup] webpage all others will not show on this page|Free for non-commercial use|-|[http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ BackupPC]|Open source - GPL|-|[http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/ Create Synchronicity]|Open source - GPL|-|[http://freefilesync.sourceforge.net/ FreeFileSync]|Open source - GPL|}
== Third-Party (Free) Backup Software ==There are a number of great backup programs out there that you can use absolutely free. Here is my list:#[http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup]#[http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm DriveImage XML]#[http://www.areca-backup.org/index.php Areca Backup]#[http://thebackupmonkey.blogspot.com/ Bonkey]#[http://www.hiteksoftware.com/jaba/ JaBack]#[http://www.nasbackup.com/wiki/Introduction NasBackup]#[http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp DeltaCopy]#[http://www.allwaysync.com/ Allway Sync]#[http://www.gfi.com/backup-hm GFI Backup]#[http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ BackupPC]#[http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/ Create Synchronicity]#[http://www.uk-dissertation.com/ Dissertations]== Vista Windows Backups ==Here is a quick how to on doing [[VistaBackups | periodic file backups in Windows Vista to your HDA]].
== * XP: Follow the [[XPBackups | Windows XP Backups ==]] guidance.
For XP Backups, visit * Vista or newer: Review the section for [[XPBackups Windows Backups| periodic file backups in Windows XPVista to your HDA]]documentation.
== 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 ===== [https://www.amahi.org/apps/amahi-time-machine Amahi Time Machine] Application ===
==== SMB (Samba) ====
'''WARNING - Hack ahead!''' For Time Machine smb users only.
''The method described below does not appear to work with Time Machine starting with Snow Leopard - it allows you to see the drives, but backups will not start successfully.''
There is an unsupported way to enable using Mac OS X Time Machine to backup to your HDA. The [http://vowe.net/archives/008940.html Time Machine hack] is a one liner command to be typed in a terminal in Mac OS X:
Needless to say, we're not advocating you backup your data like this, since Apple does not support this functionality. There are rumors that data corruption can occur if the size of the backup exceeds 2TB or if a large number of files, on the order of a million, are backed up. Because the exact conditions leading to data corruption are not well quantified, we do not recommend you backup like this.
== AFP ==
For full time machine support in fedora, avahi(bonjour) and netatalk(afp) need to be installed
==== Install [[AFP ====]] and Avahi:* in Applevolume.default add
For full time machine support in fedora<pre>~/ "$u" allow:UserName rwlist:UserName, avahi(bonjour) and netatalk(afp) need to be installed@users cnidscheme:cdb<br>/var/hda/files/timemachine allow:UserName rwlist:UserName,@users cnidscheme:cdb options:usedots,upriv</pre>
[[http:*Change UserName to your username and /var/hda/files/wikitimemachine to your timemachine folder, the first line will also publish your homefolder to your mac but was necessary in my setup to work*Then service avahi-daemon and atalk restart*The server will show up on your mac connect to the xserve afp server*On your mac open disk utility, make a new disk image with the max size on disk possible and name it Computername_ethernetmacadress.amahisparsebundle (ex.org/indexMacBookProIcey_aa00bb11cc22.php/AFP]Install AFP and Avahi]sparsebundle)
#use Journaled/case sensitive
#name has to be Backup of ComputerName
#and save it to the timemachine share
*in Applevolume.default add
<code>~/ "$u" allow[[File:UserName rwlist:UserName,@users cnidscheme:cdb<br>/var/hda/files/timemachine allow:UserName rwlist:UserName,@users cnidscheme:cdb options:usedots,upriv</code>Tm-sparsebundle.png|caption]]
*Change UserName to your username and /var/hda/files/timemachine to your timemachine folder, Timemachine image will grow when you synchronize but never larger than the first line max size*Time machine will also publish now find your homefolder to your mac but was necessary in my setup to workamahi time capsule
*then service avahi-daemon and atalk restart
*''Update: Recent versions of timemachine do not appear to respect the max size of the server sparsebundle and will show cheerfully fill up on your mac connect to the xserve afp server*on your mac open disk utility*make . To fix this, you need a new disk image with more recent version of netatalk (2.0.5+?), which has an option to tell fibs about the max size on of the disk possible and name it Computername_ethernetmacadress, hence limiting timemachine's space consumption. Fedora 14 has netatalk 2.1.4.sparsebundleex.MacBookProIcey_aa00bb11cc22.sparsebundle''
#use Journaled= Full Disk "Bare Metal" Backups =Bare metal backups are no longer available as a feature in current Amahi releases. Recommend checking out [http:/case sensitive#name has to be Backup of ComputerName#and save it to /clonezilla.org Clonezilla] as a viable alternative. See the timemachine shareAmahi tutorial on using [[File:Tm-sparsebundle.png|captionClonezilla]]for detailed guidance.
*timemachine image will grow when you synchronize '''NOTE:''' Older Amahi 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 never larger than the max size*time machine will now find your amahi time capsuleappears 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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