I’m after a program that will backup data from my windows PC to my linux server but more importantly I want it to keep a history of the last 7 days of a file (preferably in a separate sub directory in the destination).
There’s an excellent tool in linux that did it fine (Rdiff-backup) but I cant use that now and was wondering if there’s anything similar in windows?
I’ve been using Syncback but it cant keep a history.
no idea about windows tools, but could you just run a cron on linux to move the dir’s around in between windows backups?
so windows backs up every midnight to the same place
linux script runs every midday and moves <dir.6> to <dir.7> … <dir> to <dir.0>
not elegant but would work
It would work.
I was hoping to just have a folder on the linux box called backup (or similar) and have just the changed files in there. I don’t want the entire fodler being moved around. That would imply 7x the space needed.
Rdiff only used minimal amounts of space. (Only copied the changed parts of the files) but I don’t mind about that really…I’d just like the changed files to have a backup as well.)
ah I see your point, not too sure about that
Rdiff backup can work on Windows using Cygwin but when I tried that, I was locked into where I installed Cygwin (so C:/Cygwin) which isn’t much use because I need stuff outside the Cygwin folder backed up.
Can you use a DOS batch file to copy across the domain via Task Scheduler?
The answers been under my nose for the last year…
Upgrading to Syncback SE for the very reasonable sum of £18 let me introduce versioning history.
AND I can add fast backups - a windows implementation of Rsync Backup from looks. 