Rasberry Pi as a Time Machine Clone

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Hi Folks,
Today I am pleased to announce an exciting new facility.

Your Raspberry Pi can now be used as a complete and very comprehensive Backup Solution for the Windows PCs in your network.

Raspberry Pi can now act as a backup target in your home LAN. As an ultra low power device designed to be "always on" and available, it's just what you want from a backup system. On your Windows machines simply install Genie9 and choose The Rasberry Pi as the target for your backups. Genie9 runs in the background on your Windows PC and monitors any changes to the system. When changes occur, they will be saved at regular intervals, the timing of which you can configure.

When I began with my SqueezePlug project 3 years ago I had already thought about such a solution, inspired by Time Machine – you probably know about that. But Time Machine is not available for Windows. Genie9 is something like a Time Machine clone and fits my needs exactly. But Genie9 is only the component running on the Windows Client. Where shall I store my backups? On the Client itself? I think that's not a clever choice! So I needed an other backup target. What are the requirements?

- Enough disk space to store the backups
- Always available, so the Windows PC can backup when necessary
- Ultra low power consumption
- Reliable and robust service
- So thinking about what the perfect device could be, I chose SqueezePlug.

I contacted the distributor of the Genie9 software and we both liked this setup, tested it and we are very happy about the results. It's something like a win-win situation or even better a win-win-win situation. Why 3 times win?

- For you -- you will get a special price if you use Genie9 with SqueezePlug. A discount voucher will be created during the installation of Genie9 in SqueezePlug
- For Genie9 -- maybe they will sell more of their products
- For the SqueezePlug Project -- Genie9 will compensate us, assisting and enabling further development.
So now I've implemented Genie9 in SqueezePlug and you can use it if you like! All versions are free for 30 days testing and there is a free version with reduced features available. I recommend the "Genie Timeline Professional" version because of its additional features over and above the free version.

The next days I'll make a script for the original foundation image, so you don't need to use SqueezePlug for this. Meantime you have to use SqueezePlug.

Where to start:

On SqueezePlug type "setup"
Choose <Misc_Services> <Genie9> <Install>
On your Windows PC search the network for the device "SQUEEZEPLUG" and for a share named "genie9"
Click on the installation package and install Genie9
After the installation you will see SqueezePlug as a backup target choose that and you will be ready to go!

Sounds easy? It is easy!!!

If you'd like to order Genie9 please click this link! Genie9 will see that you are coming from SqueezePlug and will support the project if you place an order.

http://eshop.genie9.de/affiliateprogram ... annerid=20