On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Tom Brown wrote:
I have a couple C5 systems I want to back up. My plan is to, one way or
another, back them up to a C5 machine in my office. I have samba installed
on the systems to back up, the machines are mounted on the system in my
office, and a tape library hanging of the system in my office.
I was hoping to perform a simple /sbin/dump of the remote systems. I put
together a script for another successful backup I have going on a system
with local filesystems. But for remote filesystems, I get errors of File
Cannot Be Accessed (//remote_system/subdir) which does exist as an smb
mounted filesystem.
I'd use NFS, but I would like a bit more control and some level of
encryption for the user authentication and data being transferred.
If a direct dump of remote smb filesystems isn't possible, I may opt to
have each system perform their own local dumps, then run a script locally
on the tape-connected machine to dump those local dumps, or copy the dumps
locally then dump them to tape.
If nothing else works, I can always install Windows XP and use Windows
backup program, but I'd really like to try and get this going under Linux
before going that route.
use amanda, www.amanda.org
it rocks
My fundamental question is why dump claims it cannot access what I want it
to back up. What's to say other solutions - Amanda, etc, will work any
better? I want to know how to resolve the source problem before looking
into other products. How will BackupPC or Amanda do any better?
Thanks.
Scott
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