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Backup software for Windows

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  • 22-10-2008 4:23pm
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    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hi all. Just wondering if anyone knows of an Open Source backup utility for Windows that'll backup to a SCSI tape drive. It has be to able to split up a large amount of data (4TB+) across multiple tapes. Thanks.


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    Dingatron
    Registered Users Posts: 2,694 ✭✭✭Dingatron


    Have a look at bacula it may do what your looking for but theres a good bit of configuration required.

    http://www.bacula.org/en/

    Edit:

    The Windows servers (Director and Storage daemon) are available in the binary Client installer. The are reported to work in many cases. However they are NOT supported.


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    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Doesn't seem to run on Windows though


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    Dingatron
    Registered Users Posts: 2,694 ✭✭✭Dingatron


    Oops your right. I use it on RedHat but thought they'd a Windows port. It's just the client management software by the looks of it. Sorry bout that!


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    Orion
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    Cobian might do it. It's GPL but I can't see if it'll back up to SCSI devices - should do tho.


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    4TB ?

    for the amount you will need to spend on the drives and tape rotations you could easily afford a unix/linux box

    then use the unix/linux box to pull files from the windows ones SMB / rsync
    you could even setup a few TB locally with some large SATA drives so you only need to copy the deltas while having the full data set ready for a full backup

    maybe use a NAS so the windows machines store data on it and it does it's own backup


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