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  • Setting Up BackupPC on Windows

    My original intent in setting up BackupPC was to be able to backup my laptops. They mainly run Windows and have a lot of shared files. Therefore I wanted a backup solution that handled de-duplication. BackupPC was just what I needed. I have already posted an article about Setting Up BackupPC on Ubuntu that includes setting up a server.

    This article covers setting up BackupPC on Windows using rsyncd as the protocol. (I tried using Samba, but didn’t like the results with Windows Home editions.) This is done with an extremely minimal cygwin install available from the BackupPC site on SourceForge. The backups described here are not designed for bare metal recovery. They should include all the user’s files and some of the configuration data for installed applications.

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  • Setting Up BackupPC on Ubuntu

    I recently started to do regular backups of all my systems using BackupPC. It uses the rsync protocol to limit the amount of data transferred during backups. Once the initial backup is done, future backups only need to copy incremental changes. This requires far fewer resources than other software I have used

    This article covers setting up the server on Ubuntu and configuring backups for Ubuntu and OpenWRT. A future article will cover backing up Windows systems using an rsyncd daemon process.

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