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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?"
Why not set up a VPN and tunnel Samba through that? That should take care of your fear of insecurity with SMB. Piss easy + secure.
Not sure what software is available for windows, but there is FreeS/WAN for Linux.
I'll see your +1 Troll and raise you a point for posting absolutely nothing of value. Dumbass.