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HowtoForge: Back Up Linux And Windows Systems With BackupPC

Written By
FT
Falko Timme
Jan 30, 2007

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“This tutorial shows how you can back up Linux and Windows
systems with BackupPC. BackupPC acts as a server and is installed
on a Linux system, and from there it can connect to all Linux and
Windows systems in your local network to back them up and restore
them without interfering with the user’s work on that system. On
the clients minimal to no configuration is needed. BackupPC
supports full and incremental backups, and it comes with a neat web
frontend for the administrator and normal user so that backups and
recoveries can be managed through a web browser. It should be
noted, however, that BackupPC does file-based backups, not bit-wise
backups like Ghost4Linux, for example, so it is not made for
disk/partition imaging…”

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Falko Timme

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