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= 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.
[[Image:VistaBackups3.png | 150px | Vista Backups | right]]
=Windows Backups = 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]
How to backup Ubuntu clients using Ubuntu's [[Sbackup | Simple Backup]].
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 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.
Another backup solution is a program called [[SuperDuper!]], follow the link to see the steps and to find out about SuperDuper!.
Backups with [[SystemRescueCD_with_Mac_OS_X | SystemRescueCD]] have been reported that they work, more info can be found by visiting the link.
'''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.
For full time machine support in fedora, avahi(bonjour) and netatalk(afp) need to be installed
Install [[http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/AFP]Install AFP ] and Avahi] :*in Applevolume.default add
<codepre>~/ "$u" allow:UserName rwlist:UserName,@users cnidscheme:cdb<br>/var/hda/files/timemachine allow:UserName rwlist:UserName,@users cnidscheme:cdb options:usedots,upriv</codepre>
*Change UserName to your username and /var/hda/files/timemachine to your timemachine folder, the first line will also publish your homefolder to your mac but was necessary in my setup to work
*then Then service avahi-daemon and atalk restart *the The server will show up on your mac connect to the xserve afp server*on On your mac open disk utility*, make a new disk image with the max size on disk possible and name it Computername_ethernetmacadress.sparsebundle(ex.MacBookProIcey_aa00bb11cc22.sparsebundle)
#use Journaled/case sensitive
#name has to be Backup of ComputerName
#and save it to the timemachine share
[[File:Tm-sparsebundle.png|caption]]
*timemachine Timemachine image will grow when you synchronize but never larger than the max size*time Time machine will now find your amahi time capsule ''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. Recommend checking out [http://clonezilla.org Clonezilla] as a viable alternative. See the Amahi tutorial on using [[Clonezilla]] for detailed guidance.
= Using 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. Backup Exec =Alternatively BESR can be installed on a central windows machine with agents deployed on all other 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 "Save & Restore" I'm not overly familiar with this product but it replaces Norton "Ghost" in most markets.[http://www.symantec.com/norton/save-restore] the GUI is exactly the same as BESR== System Recovery 8.5 ==
Symantec's [http://www.symantec.com/business/backup-exec-system-recovery-desktop-edition BESR is only for ] 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 machines computers connected to HDA and route backup to a folder on the HDA but is a great solution . Remember to protecting these machines and allows LIVE single pass backup and granular restore of set permissions on destination folders. Activate VSS copy so any open filesare captured, saves doing an image and optional threatcon can be used to trigger a file backupif a threat becomes widespread. Less space less time. An Alternatively BESR can be installed on a central Windows machine with agents deployed on all other Windows and Linux machines and using the new Linux media server agent is available to (replaces RALUS) backup directly on the Linux but another option HDA. This way you maintain a catalogue of all backups and can trigger them from a central console.BESR is to boot the HDA on enterprise windows standard for Backup and restore. Norton the recovery disk and create a cold image 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 serversame as BESR.
BESR is only for 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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