Re: [PLUG] Backing up Windows to Linux

[JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On 5/28/23 03:31 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 1:34 PM JP Vossen via plug
> <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> > Still, if Win-11 is able to *reliably* back itself up to the cloud (taking into account the issues Roch originally raised), might it be possible to hijack that capability and self-host it?  I'm sure they'll make that as hard as possible, then then, Samba exists.
>
> The fine print on this solution seems pretty important:
>
> 1. It only seems to back up apps/settings installed from the MS Store.
> (That phone-like app store where MS takes ~30% of anything you buy, so
> it doesn't contain any serious commercial software.  Actually, this is
> basically the reason Valve invented SteamOS - game publishers didn't
> want to have to give MS a 30% cut of every $70 game sale.)
> 2. It doesn't really seem to do anything for data.  They'd argue
> that's what OneDrive is for.  That sort-of works, but I'm dealing with
> stuff like LightRoom that tends to have 50GB databases.
>
> The main reason I don't use individual PC backup software is that
> those things tend to charge a premium for capacity, and I have quite a
> bit of data.  That bacula backup weighed in at about 350GB - that's
> the size of my profile directory basically.  Quite a bit of that is
> thanks to Adobe.

Ouch, I have to admit I missed that.  That's...not too good.

Later,
JP
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