[BBLISA] Backup Windows systems to samba?

[Patrick Nixon]

Have you considered Windows Backup (comes with windows 7/8)?    The latest
version is very featureful and I'm pretty sure, but could be mistaken, that
it can do baremetal restore.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr-bblisa at randomstring.org>
wrote:

> I have five or six Windows machines hanging around; it would be
> nice to provide a decent backup option.
>
> What qualifies as decent?
>
> - a full backup can be restored to bare metal
> - a partial restore can be handled by the user
> - there's an installable client (as opposed to "compile six
>   things and ship a copy of MS VC++ library 6.7f")
>
> We have a nice Linux system that provides backup to Time
> Machine users very smoothly, including pretending that they each
> have 200GB volumes without requiring funky loopback workarounds.
>
> It would be very nice to do the same with SAMBA for the Windows
> clients, but I have not been able to make this work. It appears
> from googling that everyone who has has been setting the home
> dirs of the backup client users to 777...
>
> -dsr-
>
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