Remote Backup of Windows Boxes w/o Samba?

reezle asks: "I'm looking for a good (free as in beer) method to have my Debian server back up some remote Windows machines. There is no Samba in the mix; this is supposed to be a strictly secure internet thing. I've been toying with OpenSSH on the windows computers as a good tunnel, thought of simple tools like ntbackup initiated from a script on the Linux box, but not all of the pieces have come together yet. I need to have the Linux box make the connection, back up data (full and incremental backups) and have that backup data get back to the Linux machine in an encrypted format (across the wild internet). Has anyone done something like this?"

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BackupPC

[mrph]

I use BackupPC on a Debian box to backup some laptops and a server at work.
It is highly configurable and easy to set up automatic backup routines and you can monitor operations
using a webbased interface. BackupPC also supports various transfer methods such as rsync, samba, etc.
and makes use of compression and pooling of files to save diskspace.

Of course, getting some scripts using rsync over ssh or something like that won't be that hard,
but anyway, I recommend you to check out BackupPC.