Common front end for Image backup?

general discussion
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Hi Martin,

Maybe Some information about what you are searching for :

“MKSBackup is a free front-end for common backup tools like MS Windows ntbackup, and it successor wbadmin, Un*x tools like tar, but also popular ghettoVCB to backup Virtual Machine on VMware ESX(i) host.”

http://www.magikmon.com/mksbackup/index.en.html#idx_install
http://www.magikmon.com/mksbackup/wbadmin.en.html

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It Would be interesting for urBackup to do block-level incremental backup for :

-virtual machines
-big database files

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Hmm, looks like that tool is just calling the respecive tools and then does the backup management.

If you use btrfs on the storage device you can do block-level backups of files btw. If you want to that without scanning the content of the whole file, there is currently probably no other way then i) writing a filter driver for Windows ii) use backup APIs for the specific software.

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I think so too …

have you ever tried todobackup free : http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm

The agent does exactly the thing and the incremental image is fast !!