On 29/01/2008 13:35, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
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
I've never used dump before but reading the manpage seems to indicate
that it's a tool for backing up an ext2/3 filesystem, not a CIFS
filesystem which is essentialy how a Samba mount is seen by the kernel
on your office machine. If I am correct here then I doubt it would work
over NFS either.
I can put my vote in for amanda as a good alternative.
cheers
Luke
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