The Since the Amahi HDA now includes appears as a NAS to you network, it is a natural destination for the [http://pba-vmbackups from your network PCs.sourceforge.net/ Personal Backup Appliance], or PBA, with All backups are initiated by the collaboration of client computer on to the PBA leader, Roland HuiHDA. Here is what the web interface looks like:

= 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:BackupsVistaBackups3.png|550px150px | Vista Backups | right]]

This application is essentially a hard disk cloneWe have documented ways to conduct periodic backups in various platforms. If you have good suggestions on how to do that, backup and restore application.please add them to this section of the wiki! (Or email it to us if you're wiki-shy)

= What to do, in 2 simple steps =# Simply boot your machine from the network. Pressing F12 during BIOS may work after you enable network boot, else [[Network Boot|see other tips on network booting]]# The option to Third-Party (Free) Backup/Restore will appear on the screen:<br />[[Image:pba-client-main.png]]Software ==#* When Backup is selected, it will ask what disk There are a number of great open source or free backup programs out there that you want to back up can use free (if you have more than onecommercial users should check license details).#* When Restore Here is selected, it will ask what image of the a partial list you want (feel free to restore, and to what drive.add others):

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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 restore entire hard disk drives over 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 networklink. == 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. This functionality is similar  ''The method described below does not appear to work with Time Machine starting with Snow Leopard - it allows you to that of commercial products such as Norton Ghost Serversee the drives, but there 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 no added cost for additional software or hardwarea one liner command to be typed in a terminal in Mac OS X:  <code>defaults write com.apple. systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1</code> This feature simplifies consumer hard disk will offer you the choice to backup down to very simple stepsyour HDA shares.* The intended audience is any user It should be noted that wants mounting a no-hassles directory from your HDA via NFS let's you use time machine without this hack. 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 solutionexceeds 2TB or if a large number of files, on the order of a million, are backed up. All 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 do is power on the machine you want be installed Install [[AFP]] and Avahi:* in Applevolume.default add  <pre>~/ "$u" allow:UserName rwlist:UserName,@users cnidscheme:cdb<br>/var/hda/files/timemachine allow:UserName rwlist:UserName,@users cnidscheme:cdb options:usedots,upriv</pre> *Change UserName to backupyour username and /var/hda/files/restoretimemachine to your timemachine folder, boot from the network first line will also publish your homefolder to your mac but was necessary in my setup to work*Then service avahi-daemon and select what you want to backup.atalk restart* The PBA app backs server will show up on your mac connect to the entire hard xserve afp server*On your mac open disk. The MBRutility, partition table make a new disk image with the max size on disk possible and all partitions are copiedname it Computername_ethernetmacadress.sparsebundle (ex. MacBookProIcey_aa00bb11cc22. The Personal sparsebundle) #use Journaled/case sensitive#name has to be Backup Appliance aims of ComputerName#and save it to the timemachine share  [[File:Tm-sparsebundle.png‎|caption]] *Timemachine image will grow when you synchronize but never larger than the max size*Time machine will now find your amahi time capsule  ''Update: Recent versions of timemachine do not appear to be an easy respect the max size of the sparsebundle and fast backup solutionwill cheerfully fill up your disk. To fix this, you need a more recent version of netatalk (2.0. Most partitions types such as NTFS5+?), FAT16/32which has an option to tell fibs about the size of the disk, and ext3 hence limiting timemachine's space consumption. Fedora 14 has netatalk 2.1.4...'' = Full Disk "Bare Metal" Backups =Bare metal backups are supported by tools that understand 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. '''NOTE:''' Older Amahi releases used the filesystemPersonal Backup Appliance, so only or [[PBA | PBA]], with the collaboration of the data PBA leader, Roland Hui. PBA is copiedan 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 == Symantec's [http://www.symantec.com/business/backup-exec-system-recovery-desktop-edition BESR] allows full system backup and empty space is ignoredrestore (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. This makes copying very fastRemember to set permissions on destination folders. For other partition typesActivate VSS copy so any open files are captured, raw copies are madeoptional threatcon can be used to trigger a backup if a threat becomes widespread. The technology working behind Alternatively BESR can be installed on a central Windows machine with agents deployed on all other Windows and Linux machines and using the scenes in PBA is not newLinux media server agent (replaces RALUS) backup directly on the Linux HDA. In fact, many This way you maintain a catalogue of all backups and can trigger them from a central console.BESR is the open source programs enterprise windows standard for Backup and tools used 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 PBA have been around for a long timemost markets. The innovation in PBA GUI is exactly the same as BESR. BESR is in only for Windows machines connected to the presentation HDA but is a great solution to protecting these machines and the integration allows LIVE single pass backup and granular restore of these programs files, saves doing an image and toolsa file backup.* Thanks Less space less time. An agent is available to Roland Hui for helping port the personal backup appliance Linux but another option is to boot the HDA!on the recovery disk and create a cold image of the server.  [[Category: Services]]