Backup Linux server from windows machine. What can be organized?

Question

linux

Good afternoon.
Comrades, please tell me about this question:
There is a server on ubuntu-server 14.04, there is a machine on Windows 7, you need to completely copy the ubuntu server once a month and put a backup on a Windows machine. That is, make a full copy of the hard drive with subsequent copying over the local network, so that in the event of a hard drive death (very harsh operating conditions and hard drives die every six months), simply deploy the backup to a new hard drive and insert it into the server, resume its work.
Can you tell me what tool this can be done?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

We divide the task into several logically simple ones -
1) Create an image of the system.
3)Create a copy of the data
3)Move the image and copy of the data to the backup storage.
You can create an image using, for example, partimage, although in this case I think remastersys would be more appropriate.
How to copy the data itself strongly depends on the data itself - I think there will be no questions here.
Move to storage - mount a network share and write there.

Answer 2

acronis

Answer 3

There is such a project https://www.cygwin.com/. These are linux utilities for windows, there are both ssh and rsync. Then I think you'll figure out how to do it. In your place, I copied all the contents of the server via cygwin via rsync with simultaneous compression to tar.gz, so as not to lose file permissions.

Answer 4

google LVM backup / restore , in addition, do a raid and just change flying screws

Answer 5

I think the task was initially set incorrectly.
Here it is more appropriate to put a second machine on the same Ubuntu, synchronize them with rsync and keep the disks on this machine also open, but only for reading.
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