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[Carbongrip]

Hey everyone,

I have a interesting dilemma and was curious what my options are. Here is what I am trying to do...

 

Problem:

I need to backup both Windows and Mac machines some of which have hardware raid 0 arrays. I am unable to find something that meets the bellow list of what I want / need it to do.

 

What I would like the backup to do:

• Backup to a household server running Windows Server 2012 r2 Standard
• Backup both Windows and Mac machines
• Backup entire HDD/SSD/Raid Volume
• Schedule backup times
• NO CLOUDS!

 

If anyone has any suggestions please post bellow. Thanks.

[HPWebcamAble]

CrashPlan might be able to handle it. Free unless you use their cloud backup service.

[RedWulf]

Is the raid 0 particularly important, i mean it is technically just another volume so you can back it up all the same. But if you want an exact bit by bit copy it may get complicated.

You just need to make sure you have reserved and static ips and then allow file sharing for the windows. Then you can use something as simple as vbs to back up the files though a scheduled task would be better. The macs will have an issue,

I'm not sure of the options to allow file transfer between windows server and mac(I would normally say freenas) if you can find some fluid software/daemon to allow file transfer then you can set another scheduled task. I would assume you could use a sftp client if needed but I would hope the is a better option some where. 

Just set the task on the server to ping the device and then copy/clone the target drives(ping is optional to cut down on errors). You may want to compress the previous back up before copying a new one instead of just replacing it to be safe and still save space.

 

Perhaps a freenas or nas4free VM? that way the network file sharing is simple and protocols are supported for both OSs, then schedule the back ups on the target devices. 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

36 minutes ago, Carbongrip said:

Hey everyone,

I have a interesting dilemma and was curious what my options are. Here is what I am trying to do...

 

Problem:

I need to backup both Windows and Mac machines some of which have hardware raid 0 arrays. I am unable to find something that meets the bellow list of what I want / need it to do.

 

What I would like the backup to do:

• Backup to a household server running Windows Server 2012 r2 Standard
• Backup both Windows and Mac machines
• Backup entire HDD/SSD/Raid Volume
• Schedule backup times
• NO CLOUDS!

 

If anyone has any suggestions please post bellow. Thanks.

windows= backup built into windows server

Mac rsync cron job.