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Re 1: how and why? It would seem to sort out all the problems with a winbox sitting on a private network. The alternative is backup->USB disk followed by scp to the host.

I realise that the Cobian machines will all be Windows! The reason I asked about the server was because you asked about controlling them centrally. I'm working on trying to backup the laptops as part of my main system backups on the Linux machines, hence the query. I'm heading towards running Cobian...

What's your central machine? Windows or Linux?

To save Luis repeating himself: In the "Files" side tab there are two main boxes: the source files and the destination files. In the latter add something like sftp://fred@server.home:22/home/fred You need to ensure that you can use ssh to the server "server.home" as user "fred" first of course! The ...

But then I hit the network problem ...

On a different note, you were helping others out on Christmas day. I wonder how many others noted that and realised this was way and above the call of duty. Thanks for all your help, and please take a rest at some point! Many best wishes, Martin.

Thanks. Season's Greetings to you and yours.

I didn't log off as Admin, just used "switch user" to overlay a new session. However I know that Windows isn't good at multiple users, I'll retreat back to Linux!

Having run a full backup I cloned the task to create a differential task and an incremental task. The aim being that the system backup can trigger off the laptop's backup at full, differential or incremental according to the established regime. However, the differential seems determined to do a full...

Similar to a shortcut?

If it's a VM, then it is possible that the host machine has cached a substantial part of it in memory, so the "seeks" are to memory, not to disk.