Re: [PLUG] Backing up Windows to Linux

["N. Albert via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On 5/26/2023 12:19 PM, Michael Lazin via plug wrote:
> The user data goes in Documents and Settings on Windows
Documents and Settings hasn't existed since Windows XP. Starting with 
Vista there is a Users folder.
Most application data lives in C:\Users\<username>\AppData, specifically 
in the Roaming subfolder (which is stuff that could be synced in a 
roaming profile).
Can also be referenced, more portably, as:
%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming
or just
%appdata%
> and it is rare that there would be an open file when making a backup 
> because this directory mostly has documents which can be open but you 
> can get around this by doing something as simple as starting a reboot 
> before you run your backup.
Personally, I've never had issues copying in use files on Windows. It's 
only moving or deleting in-use files that will trigger errors.

NA
> This is ugly but super simple to script.  You can use the task 
> scheduler to schedule this command "shutdown /r now."  This forces a 
> reboot without bringing up the services that were running at the time, 
> it is a fresh reboot to the default state which is fine for a 
> workstation.  You can use the task scheduler to run the command to 
> copy the files to your NFS share after the reboot, a lag time of 45 
> minutes seems long but this would be optimal because windows updates 
> can take up to 40 minutes, I have seen it happen.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael Lazin
>
> .. τὸ γὰραὐτὸ νοεῖν ἐστίν τε καὶ εἶναι.
>
>
> On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 7:38 AM Rich Freeman 
> <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net <mailto:r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 7:16 AM Michael Lazin via plug
>     <plug@lists.phillylinux.org <mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/mount
>     >
>     > This is Microsoft's documentation on mounting and NFS share. 
>     You can set up a secure NFS share on a Linux box, it has
>     traditionally been viewed as insecure but you can password protect
>     on the Linux server.  Once you have the NFS share mounted it will
>     appear as a drive volume on the Windows machine and you can use
>     the command line utility of your choice to move the data from
>     WIndows to Linux.  In the past I had an old NAS that had a SPARC
>     processor that could share NFS and I used it for this purpose but
>     you can easily set up NFS on any Linux device you would like to
>     use as a backup server.
>
>     This fails to address requirement 3.
>     3. Needs to use VSS or otherwise back up in-use files.
>
>     Random command line utilities on windows are not able to copy files
>     that are open.  Windows is different from linux in this regard.
>
>     Aside from this, I'd basically have to write my own backup client
>     (ugh), on windows (double ugh).
>
>     -- 
>     Rich
>
>
>
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