Backup a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain file server?
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Backup a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain file server?
I havent found any good tools for Windows to make good file backups so Im thinking of mounting a Linux VM to take care of my backups.
Requriements:
1: Schedule backups
2: Be able to choose between full, incremental and differential backups
3: File/Folder backups. Nothing about backing up to a single proprietary file.
4: The ability to backup to/from NAS shares via UNC paths
5: Be able to handle a unstable connection such as a VPN
6: A GUI that is simple
7: Active Directory integration
I think if access rights, permissions (and other metadata) are important and your data is stored on ntfs you ought to use windows to make a perfect backup.
I think if access rights, permissions (and other metadata) are important and your data is stored on ntfs you ought to use windows to make a perfect backup.
Believe it or not, there are very few solutions for my requirements. I was surprised.
i dont have any experience with rsync but i think at least you should be able to hax together a cron script to tarball files and directories and scp/sftp/sshfs them to another location (maybe use md5sum to keep track of what needs to be copied ?).
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