Backing up Windows Machines to Linux NAS,
I'm sure many of us have friends and family with Windows Machines. And the savvy among us run our own Linux Backup server / NAS boxes. How do you get regular, automated copies of data off said Windows machines? I would like to only hear from folks that actively using a solution. Not a list of 'exercise for the reader' google results. # Goal: To recover from a ransom-ware infection, by pulling the last clean snapshot of user data from the NAS. # Assumptions: Snapshots are handled by the Backup Server / NAS at a FS layer (ZFS / BTRFS), or by the server side backup software. # Nice to haves: * In-transit encryption. # Not an Acceptable Answers: Open Samba on the windows box, mounting it on the backup server, and running rsync regularly. Thanks in advance! -- Scott Sullivan
On 06/27/2017 09:23 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote:
I'm sure many of us have friends and family with Windows Machines. And the savvy among us run our own Linux Backup server / NAS boxes.
How do you get regular, automated copies of data off said Windows machines?
I would like to only hear from folks that actively using a solution. Not a list of 'exercise for the reader' google results.
# Goal:
To recover from a ransom-ware infection, by pulling the last clean snapshot of user data from the NAS.
# Assumptions:
Snapshots are handled by the Backup Server / NAS at a FS layer (ZFS / BTRFS), or by the server side backup software.
# Nice to haves:
* In-transit encryption.
# Not an Acceptable Answers:
Open Samba on the windows box, mounting it on the backup server, and running rsync regularly.
Thanks in advance!
rdiff-backup will run on windows and claims to be able to store windows file attributes. I have used it and it works but not being much for windows I did not do a whole lot with it. rdiff-backup uses ssh for communication so the link is encrypted but the data on the storage end is not. -- Alvin Starr || voice: (905)513-7688 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin@netvel.net ||
I use spider oak for this. I believe there is a opensource non-hosted alternative. Google for open source alternatives to spider-oak one. SO1 has encryption, and its only client side placed, hosting co. doesn't even have key. This violates your "google results" stipulations, but this is a good email topic to intro people to SO1 and SO1 alternatives, and you may find exactly what you want. For now I am fine with hosted solution, as its also offsite. But eventually wouldn't mind non-hosted, and started to look for that, and there were some claims that there is stuff out there. -tl On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I'm sure many of us have friends and family with Windows Machines. And the savvy among us run our own Linux Backup server / NAS boxes.
How do you get regular, automated copies of data off said Windows machines?
I would like to only hear from folks that actively using a solution. Not a list of 'exercise for the reader' google results.
# Goal:
To recover from a ransom-ware infection, by pulling the last clean snapshot of user data from the NAS.
# Assumptions:
Snapshots are handled by the Backup Server / NAS at a FS layer (ZFS / BTRFS), or by the server side backup software.
# Nice to haves:
* In-transit encryption.
# Not an Acceptable Answers:
Open Samba on the windows box, mounting it on the backup server, and running rsync regularly.
Thanks in advance! -- Scott Sullivan --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have one Windows box left, on which I've installed the UnxUtils package (in the Windows sense of package, not .rpm or .deb) That box uses a batch file to push its files to a GNU/Linux backup server using rsync.exe. On other Windows boxes I've used Scheduled Tasks to run batch files, although I'm not doing so here. I used the Windows tool DeltaCopy for a while, but it was too finicky. But it did generate a useful command line for rsync.exe, which I now use with UnxUtils. - --Bob. On 2017-06-27 10:03 PM, ted leslie via talk wrote:
I use spider oak for this. I believe there is a opensource non-hosted alternative. Google for open source alternatives to spider-oak one. SO1 has encryption, and its only client side placed, hosting co. doesn't even have key. This violates your "google results" stipulations, but this is a good email topic to intro people to SO1 and SO1 alternatives, and you may find exactly what you want. For now I am fine with hosted solution, as its also offsite. But eventually wouldn't mind non-hosted, and started to look for that, and there were some claims that there is stuff out there.
-tl
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I'm sure many of us have friends and family with Windows Machines. And the savvy among us run our own Linux Backup server / NAS boxes.
How do you get regular, automated copies of data off said Windows machines?
I would like to only hear from folks that actively using a solution. Not a list of 'exercise for the reader' google results.
# Goal:
To recover from a ransom-ware infection, by pulling the last clean snapshot of user data from the NAS.
# Assumptions:
Snapshots are handled by the Backup Server / NAS at a FS layer (ZFS / BTRFS), or by the server side backup software.
# Nice to haves:
* In-transit encryption.
# Not an Acceptable Answers:
Open Samba on the windows box, mounting it on the backup server, and running rsync regularly.
Thanks in advance! -- Scott Sullivan --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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- -- Bob Jonkman <bjonkman@sobac.com> Phone: +1-519-635-9413 SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/ Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability iEYEARECAAYFAllTH0IACgkQuRKJsNLM5eq6WACgz+Gx/++ghbPFF5dVTN+gnuho 52cAoP5cZACIns/HrGB0+DG7j004FmeJ =lVXw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
I use the open source (Windows, macOS, Ubuntu, Debian) program FreeFileSync(.org) for this exact purpose. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bob Jonkman via talk <talk@gtalug.org> Date: Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Backing up Windows Machines to Linux NAS, To: GTALUG Talk <talk@gtalug.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have one Windows box left, on which I've installed the UnxUtils package (in the Windows sense of package, not .rpm or .deb) That box uses a batch file to push its files to a GNU/Linux backup server using rsync.exe. On other Windows boxes I've used Scheduled Tasks to run batch files, although I'm not doing so here. I used the Windows tool DeltaCopy for a while, but it was too finicky. But it did generate a useful command line for rsync.exe, which I now use with UnxUtils. - --Bob. On 2017-06-27 10:03 PM, ted leslie via talk wrote:
I use spider oak for this. I believe there is a opensource non-hosted alternative. Google for open source alternatives to spider-oak one. SO1 has encryption, and its only client side placed, hosting co. doesn't even have key. This violates your "google results" stipulations, but this is a good email topic to intro people to SO1 and SO1 alternatives, and you may find exactly what you want. For now I am fine with hosted solution, as its also offsite. But eventually wouldn't mind non-hosted, and started to look for that, and there were some claims that there is stuff out there.
-tl
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I'm sure many of us have friends and family with Windows Machines. And the savvy among us run our own Linux Backup server / NAS boxes.
How do you get regular, automated copies of data off said Windows machines?
I would like to only hear from folks that actively using a solution. Not a list of 'exercise for the reader' google results.
# Goal:
To recover from a ransom-ware infection, by pulling the last clean snapshot of user data from the NAS.
# Assumptions:
Snapshots are handled by the Backup Server / NAS at a FS layer (ZFS / BTRFS), or by the server side backup software.
# Nice to haves:
* In-transit encryption.
# Not an Acceptable Answers:
Open Samba on the windows box, mounting it on the backup server, and running rsync regularly.
Thanks in advance! -- Scott Sullivan --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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Alvin Starr -
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Scott Sullivan -
ted leslie