Advice for Client/Server Backup

WhiteTiger

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I would like to backup Max 10 PCs on FreeNAS.
I was looking for an Open Source client / server program that is manageable via GUI, both for the server and on the Windows client.
I would like to use deduplication to save space.
I initially considered BackupPC, but it expects shared folders to be created on PCs and I would like to avoid this.
Do you have to recommend a program that can be installed in FreeNAS, I presume inside a Jail?
 

hervon

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urbackup
 

revengineer

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Note the urBackup will deduplicate file backups but not the image backups needed for bare metal restore. As a result, the backups for my 5 PCs take up twice the space than they did when I was using Windows Server 2012 Essentials.
 

elorimer

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One some of my Windows PCs I've moved the Documents, Music and Downloads folders to datasets on Freenas. Those are backed up within Freenas, so I don't need backups of those for image backups. The problem is the Windows 7 backup program backs them up as part of the image backup, so I end up with gigantic image sizes.

Would urBackup deduplicate that, do you think?
 
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