My linux boxes (both physical and virtual) are backed up by a series of scripts that do level zero dumps once every four weeks and incrementals on other days using xfsdump, dump, tar and a couple of special steps for databases. A bit “old-school”, but it’s a robust system that allows for easy disaster recovery. The fly in the ointment is a couple of Windows laptops. I see that Win10 has a cut-down version of tar, but it doesn’t have the date selection feature of GNUtar which is essential for incrementals.
Anyone got any ideas for integrating Windows backups?
Their solution seems to only back up the logged on user files that Uncle Bill thinks you should back up or else lay out £££ for a closed proprietary system.
What I would like to be able to do is ssh into the Winbox and trigger an administrator-level backup back over the net to my server.
I too have a similar system with the server doing xfsdump to an external usb drive. What I do for the laptop is run Genie Backup Manager, a free version, on the laptop and point the output to land on a mounted backup subdirectory on the linux machine. This is a bit duplicative in that it gets backed up twice but it only takes one set of external disks to contain both systems. The Geinie backups can be accessed off the server mount point for a week, 0-level with incrimentals , and then the next 0-lev wipes it all and starts again. If necessary to go back further I can xfsrestore from the linux box which keeps 4 weeks of data on 4 disks.
I see that Win10 has a cut-down version of