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Contents. Introduction BackupPC is a free backup software suite with a web-based frontend. The cross-platform server will run on any Linux, Solaris, or UNIX based server. No client is necessary, as the server is itself a client for several protocols that are handled by other services native to the client OS. Backup Methods Three methods for getting backup data from a client are:. smb (Server Message Block). tar (tape archiver).

rsync (file transfer program for Unix systems).

Which OSX version? Time Machine is the usual route. With OSX 10.8+ can use multiple Time Machine targets (say, local HDD and network mount point). Setting up multiple Time Machine targets is non-obvious, hence test to your satisfaction before rolling it out. If using a local HDD FW800 is much preferred (offloads transfers from CPU). Thunderbolt is awesome at a premium cost and lower range of available of devices. Time Machine defaults to hourly backup (annoying for some).

There are control panels and CLI to adjust, as needed. Also, can select to.exclude.

some things from the regular Time Machine backup, such as VMs. Automator could be used to backup VMs periodically, say weekly or monthly. Alternate option is CCC, or Carbon Copy Cloner. Formerly freeware, it is modestly priced now. It is meant as a full disk image. Works well, and has long pedigree with OS X/Macs.

100% automated best choice is Crash Plan Pro, but you would have to reshare the NAS as a target destination (doubt the NAS device can run 3rd-party software). Time Machine is a possibility, but if the NAS doesn't offer native AFP file-services, then you'll be intentionally kludging things to get around limits that Apple put in place intentionally. Not recommended at all. Don't copy system-level items, thats. For a little Mac 101, for backups most people use Time Machine. This is one area where Apple has a big distinction over a PC with regard to what comes in the OS.

Time Machine works for pretty much everyone's normal backup needs. While it doesn't actually image the hard drive, you can easily restore it to a bare hard drive the same way you would with an image. We are mostly PC here, and we don't back up our workstations. We do have a few VIPs with Macs, and we do back them up via Time Machine using locally connected hard drives. While Time Machine can run over a network there are some situations where certain things can push the limits and start getting problematic. It's not optimized for networks.

The other backup/imaging tool that Mac users mention a lot is Carbon Copy Cloner. I think it's a product that predates Time Machine which has managed to survive by being aggressive in adding features that Time Machine doesn't have. So if you have a niche case, expect more flexibility from this product. As far as network backups, in addition to Mac server you can also back up to a Time Capsule or any NAS that can present AFP shares, which isn't going to be any NAS, but it's not a terribly hard to find feature. Before I started at my current job there were two TimeCapsules in use for backing up OSX. Except for one reason or another every Mac had decided to stop backing up to it.

Network Time Machine is not for business. I don't care for TimeMachine at all personally. Not 'noisy' enough for me when backups fail. System imaging or even an install USB is the way to go for recovering OS. Installing OSX does not take long.

For backup, my go to is CrashPlan. But you already have a NAS going, and you might want something cheap. Assuming you can get a Linux server going, BackupPC would work well for backing up clients to the NAS.

Just create a local account in the Macs, enable Remote Logon service on the Macs (SSH server) and your BackupPC server will scan the network for ssh hosts, log in, and fire up rsync on the client to send data back to the server. That will Hoover up the user data on the Macs for you.

Still though, CrashPlan is the way to go. All my users (Mac, Linux, Windows) get CrashPlan (PROe) and get backed up that way. Around 4 TB backed up. Email alers and reports.

Imagine a backup admin's wet dream and square it.;-). DavidCSG wrote: I would strongly advice against a Time Capsule for any business use: It has a single drive in it, making for a single point of failure. That's not proper backup.

This all depends on exactly what your backup goals are. I backup my Macs to a USB hard drive and the goal is essentially just convenience if a hard drive fails. It's cheap to buy a USB drive and easy to just leave it plugged in. Essentially all of the data should be somewhere else (on the server hopefully), but it's also on the actual computer in the case of a backup drive failure.

Obviously we're not covered if both the Mac hard drive and backup USB die at the same time, but that's so rare an occurrence that I don't think it's worth caring about because, as I said the data should also be on the server and the server has a much more robust backup in place. Generally, I see people do imaging backups of workstations more for ease of restoring in a failure than actual data protection in those cases a singe drive backup should suffice. If data protection is your goal you'll want a file based backup with a robust index and some form of media rotation, a replicated backup target, or an extremely resilient backup target such as Amazon S3. For ease of use Time Machine is hard to beat.

But if you have 30 people all backing up to the same place your network is going to crawl! I've used a one of these Then you can set it to work with Time Machine, and it also has Windows clients. I would not put more then 15 users on one device unless you go with the big boy with a few NIC's. I segregate the NAS's with each group having their own.

There will be increased traffic but if you are a Gigabit network things should be ok. Crash Plan is also REALLY good. I use this for offsite backups and you can use several NAS's to back up a ton of users and data. I would NEVER give any end user a USB drive for backups!

They use it once or twice then it goes home for pictures/video or get lost/broken. Then it's IT's fault they don't have a good backup. I would rather have no backup then this method, unless it's handed out and administrated by IT, but then who has that kind of time? I'm not a baby sitter! Owenmpk wrote.So to clarify I only need an image backup so if the hardware fails it can be recovered to a point in time. Thanks for the reiteration.

CCC or SuperDuper for this. There are fans for each (CCC for me). Verify features such as incremental/differential additions, integrity checking, and image file recovery records. Moving an entire HDD image from offsite to onsite will be interesting.

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Pricing is similar ($30 vs $40). A view on CCC,. SuperDuper writeup, If not already in use, local recommendation is an attached Time Machine HDD (either FW800 or Thunderbolt, as resources permit), or OS X Server for Time Machine backups (as optioned above). It is too useful.not. to use it (e.g., OS X Lion has the option to boot from an external Time Machine volume).

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Time Machine tweaking can be helpful—. TimeMachineScheduler,. TimeMachineEditor,. TimeMachineScheduler,.

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