Chris wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:43:54 -0500
Ugo Bellavance <ugob@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to implement this:
I have:
- A windows 2000 server
- A centos 4 server
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monthly.
The tape drive in the windows server died recently and I decided to
switch to USB external drives. However, the USB controller in the
windows server is only 1.1, so it is very slow.
I didn't want to install a 2.0 USB controller in the windows server
since it is a brand-name and I didn't want to make it unstable, so I
decided to make the backups of the windows server (using Backup Exec)
on the linux box.
So backup exec writes on the linux box via samba, directly on the USB
drive. (I thought of writing on the linux box FS directly, then
rsync'ing to the USB drive), but the space available on the local FS
is about 90 gigs while the external USB drives are 250 gigs, meaning
that I can keep like 4 weeks of data on the USB drives (using backup
exec settings), while I could only keep 1 or 2 weeks otherwise.
My questions is:
-how can the USB drives be umounted/mounted automatically when the
person on site changes it (monday to tuesday, for example). There
will always be only one HDD conected at the time.
I can't answer on the auto mounting however, consider this -
Run something like BackupPC on the Cent box. That in turn allows rsync
to fetch from the Windows Server without the extra overhead of samba
etc.
Ok, but we already have Backup Exec on the server, that can backup
exchange, brick-level and full information store, system state, etc.
I'm just looking for a way to be able to have backupExec to write to the
external drive.
Regards,
Ugo
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