Backups

You have several ways to do backups in your HDA.

Full Disk "Bare Metal" Backups

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The HDA now includes the Personal Backup Appliance, or PBA, with the collaboration of the PBA leader, Roland Hui.

This application is a hard disk clone, backup and restore application.

Periodic File Backups

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One of the ways to backup systems in your network is to use the operating-system provided backup service.

We have documented ways to do 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)

Vista Backups

Here is a quick how to on doing periodic file backups in Windows Vista to your HDA.

Windows XP Backups

For XP Backups, visit the section for Windows XP

Ubuntu Backups

How to on backups using Ubuntu's Simple Backup.

Mac OS X Backups with Time Machine

WARNING - Hack ahead!

There is an unsupported way to enable using Mac OS X Time Machine to backup to your HDA. The hack is in this page and it's a one liner command to be typed in a terminal in Mac OS X:

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

This will offer you the choice to backup to your HDA shares. Needless to say, we're not advocating you backup your data like this.

It should be noted that mounting a directory from your HDA via NFS let's you use time machine without this hack.