Here's what I want to build (I'm a programmer, so I could create scripts):

 

Backup file store.  The unraid box should power up by WOL once a day, and pull files via rsync (or whatever) onto its storage.  Dedupe would be nice, if it's practical by some means.  Send an email citing success or failure, then power down.

 

Bonus if it can do BMR (bare metal recovery) of windows boxes like WHS can.

 

Is this practical? 

Here's what I want to build (I'm a programmer, so I could create scripts):

 

1. Backup file store.  The unraid box should power up by WOL once a day, and pull files via rsync (or whatever) onto its storage. 

 

2. Dedupe would be nice, if it's practical by some means. 

 

3. Send an email citing success or failure, then power down.

 

4. if it can do BMR (bare metal recovery) of windows boxes like WHS can.

 

Is this practical? 

 

1.  Yes. I've done this.

2.  not really de-dupe, but there is a way to keep files which have not changed from being duplicated using the link-dest script.  check out the rsync script on my googlecode page.

http://code.google.com/p/unraid-weebotech/downloads/list

 

3. This requires other packages to be installed and customized, still it is entirely possible.

 

4. BMR. this depends on your client program. if it can access a samba share of an image then you are good. but this is not going to occur with rsync backups.