Windows 10: Server Backup....with a twist

I am looking for a product I can install on my Server 2016 box at home that will backup two laptops and a tower....but store the backups on a NAS. Preferably free.

I've been looking at Veeam and Vembu options, but it seems that they just get installed (fully) on each endpoint. If that's the best I can do, so be it. I was hoping to manage it from a console on the server, much like WHS used to do. I don't need scheduling or anything enterprise-like.

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Changing Windows Live ID... With a twist.

Today I changed my Windows Live ID. It's the same account, but I changed the address (the actual e-mail, not just an alias) to create a Live email address to replace the Yahoo! email account that all of my stuff (including my Windows Live ID) was tied
to. I have a Windows Phone, and it's still listed as my Yahoo! email on the accounts settings. I thought this was supposed to change, for starters, and second, it tells me that it's not syncing... which is weird. What do I do? Supposedly, this is all supposed
to change within 48 hours.

 

Changing Windows Live ID... With a twist.

Texts, app data and settings cannot be backed up and restored in that manner. Yes, it really, really sucks.

Pictures can be synced to your Mac or PC. Tell me which one to find out how. Contacts and calendars are backed up to the appropriate account (Windows Live, Google, Facebook, Exchange)

 

Macrium CMC (Central Management Console) is my recommendation, con being that it requires a paid for Home or Workstation license for each machine. When set up on Server, it takes care of backups of all network / domain computers, using any location you prefer as image repository like for instance your NAS.

No tutorials yet at Ten Forums but I wrote this introduction almost a year ago: First look: Macrium CMC - Central Management Console - Windows 10 Forums

• Cmc - Macrium Software
• Macrium Software | Macrium CMC Starter Pack

 

Veeam doesn't back up physical boxes at all, does it? I think it only connects at the hypervisor level.

 

They have a new Veeam Agent for Windows that's free and does run on physical machines. I downloaded it, thinking it was console driven from a server, but it isn't. I'm not a fan of local SQL installs, just to run a backup, either.

 

Hi there
you could set up in CRONTAB to run rsync at specific times with a parameter for the laptop you are backing up.

If the laptop has shared files it's even easier as you can use rsync --and if your server has a GUI the GRSYNC interface is brilliant. (All 100% free),







I'm assuming your running a conventional type of Linux distro on your server and not some QNAP proprietary stuff as these methods might not work on your server in these cases.

Cheers
jimbo

 

Nope...Windows Server 2016 Standard.