IP backup solutions?

[Tom Buskey]

> I need to backup some Winders machines in a remote location (California)
> to a server in Massachusetts.  I could do this by paying Veritas a bunch
> of money and running the backup on a Win2K box, but I'd rather not.
>
> However, I haven't (in my admittedly narrow search) found a linux-based
> IP backup solution that is optimized for sending lots of data (many
> gigs) over a slow pipe (T1 in this case) (ie: compression, good
> differential backup handling, etc).
>
> Any suggestions / input / comments / funny looks?
>

install cygwin on the windows box.  Make sure you install OpenSSH
server/client, tar, cron and gzip.

You can setup sshd as a service & connect to it from your server and run a
shell script.

Or you can run a cronjob on windows to have it connect to your server.

You'll want passwordless ssh keys with a specific allowed script running
on the system you're connecting to.

This doesn't get you the differential backups, but it does give you a backup.

tar won't backup some stuff this way.  Like the registry, open files, and
any file the user on the windows box doesn't have permissions for.

If you just want a current snapshot, how about rsync over ssh to mirror it
then back that up locally with incremental, etc....