Any home grown bare metal backup system you guys use ?

[rsutoratosu]

Looking for some free solutions for bare metal restore backups ie shadow protect type of software or unitrend... curious if you guys create your own..

looking to back up to a network san or smb or nfs share, etc. and restore from.

 

[Kaido]

I've always been curious to try Macrium with a PXE restore from WinPE ISO boot over the network - and then pick the image from a SMB share...

 

[jolancer]

I'm not familiar with your guru termanology so not sure exactly what you mean.. but almost any backup software iv recently heard of has network support.. if your not talking about complete partition, disk, or image backups.. I believe linux guru's use 'rsync' to automatically sync all there specified data with backups stored anywhere.

 

[Ken g6]

If you're looking to back up a partition, I use dd in Linux - you don't want to do that on a partition that's in use anyway.

 

[rsutoratosu]

I was looking for things like these, basically you can take snap shots of all your desktop,etc, send it to a storage server and if your hdd gets wiped out, you can boot off usb or cd and restore the lastest image from it.. thats what bare metal restore is. Basically enterprise level because I have over 20laptop/desktops at home and would be to backup to network instead of individual usb drives, etc.

http://www.amanda.org/

http://www.bacula.org/en/

 

[Virgorising]

So, you mean cloud storage, yes? If so, does your broadband provider maybe offer this option? Mine just started to for tiny money, I am not going there, but I think it's a growing trend in commerce.

http://www.thetop10bestonlinebackup.com/cloud-storage

 

[BlueWeasel]

I've used Redo Backup a few times and it works well as a bare metal backup/retore

 

[rsutoratosu]

I heard redo was pretty good. Looks easier than Amanda.

Not really for cloud, you would spend weeks trying to upload 500 workstations to the cloud every day