FreeBSD file server and backups

Hello all,

I am curious how everybody does backups on their FreeBSD machines for ideas how I should set mine up. My setup is an old PC with a 200GB IDE HDD. I also have a 1TB USB HDD plugged in as well.

My client systems includes a couple of macs with 10.7 installed, and a couple of Windows 7 PC's as well as a linux laptop (this one isn't a priority). I would like to do bare metal restores on the windows, as well as macs if possible and of course the FreeBSD server itself.

I was thinking of bare metal backups going right to the 1TB drive, and have home folders on the 200GB drive that will be synced if it is on the network. I would also like to have a media folder (for PS3, and stuff like that), but not for sure if that should be on the 1TB or the 200.

Is this out of line?

Dana
 
Boot the Windows and Linux machines with Clonezilla and it will connect via ssh to the FreeBSD system. Windows backups take a lot of space. You can make backups of the FreeBSD server to dump files, preferably on the disk not being backed up, but it's not really a backup if you can't take it elsewhere.
 
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