[Samba] Backup software
Charles Marcus
CharlesM at Media-Brokers.com
Thu Apr 11 13:39:03 GMT 2002
Ahhh. My bad.
Yes, now that I think about it this is a much bigger bear than I first
thought...
Will look forward to any solutions that are forthcoming...
Charles
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Freemyer [mailto:freemyer at NorcrossGroup.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 4:19 PM
> To: Charles Marcus; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: re[2]: [Samba] Backup software
>
> Charles,
>
> I'm not a Samba expert, but I have been researching how best
> to back up Samba shares, especially as it relates to ACLs.
>
> To use ACLs with Samba, I believe it is best to have a
> Filesystem that supports ACLs.
>
> I only know of 2 that do: "ext2/ext3 with the ACL patch" and XFS.
>
> From what I understand, it is preferred to backup "ext2/ext3
> with the ACL patch" with star.
>
> And it is preferred to backup XFS with xfsdump.
>
> If you don't use a filesystem that understands ACLs, then
> Samba maintains all the ACL info in a common file.
>
> You as the administrator are responsible for creating a
> backup mechanism that captures the Samba ACL info.
>
> That is easy if you are happy with doing a full share
> backup/restore, but if you want to be able to do individual
> file saves/restores, then you have to have some way of
> saving/restoring the ACL data on a file by file basis.
>
> === Backing up a Samba client
>
> This was the original need, but from what I understand
> smbmount does not handle ACLs, so there is no way to get the
> remote ACL info. and back it up.
>
> Greg
>
>
> >> I think XFSdump does on XFS filesystems...but I could be wrong.
>
> >> Charles
>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org
> >> > [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> >> > Behalf Of Greg Freemyer
> >> > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 2:20 PM
> >> > To: ACEAlex; samba at lists.samba.org
> >> > Subject: re: [Samba] Backup software
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > To the best of my knowledge their is not an OpenSource backup
> >> > method that will backup the ACLs on the client.
> >> >
> >> > If your clients are using FAT, then you have no problems.
> >> >
> >> > If they are running NTFS on the clients, then you have ACLs
> >> > to worry about, and you will have to decide if you need the
> >> > ACLs backed up up or not.
> >> >
> >> > i.e. ACLs are the NTFS security info.
> >> >
> >> > Note: Samba ACLs can be backed up if you ensure you are
> >> > running the right backup software like star or xfsdump.
> >> >
> >> > >> Hello
> >> >
> >> > >> Im planing on doing an open source software that handels
> >> > backups. The
> >> > >> purpose is to backup clients in an nt domain. I know
> >> > that there are
> >> > >> comercial software out there but i want to do it the
> >> > right way "open
> >> > >> source
> >> > >> :)". Oki here is my plan
> >> >
> >> > >> 1. On every client i have a user that has read access to
> >> > the whole system
> >> > >> drive. That user and password is stored on the backup
> >> > server aswell.
> >> > >> 2. The user will use a web interface and from that
> >> > request a backup of the
> >> > >> system.
> >> > >> 3. The backup server will store the request and later
> >> > that night it will
> >> > >> use
> >> > >> samba to mount the client drive and make the backup. Im
> >> > planing on using
> >> > >> gzip or bzip on every file in the system so that you
> >> > easily could recover
> >> > >> files. The files will be stored on cheap ide harddrives.
> >> > You will also be
> >> > >> able to filter out files that you dont need to backup
> >> > "word.exe, swapfile
> >> > >> etc"
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > >> Now i wounder if there are any other people out there
> >> > that already has
> >> > >> done
> >> > >> it. Is it a great ide or not?
> >> >
> >> > >> /Alexander
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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>> >
>> >
>> > Greg Freemyer
>> > Internet Engineer
>> > Deployment and Integration Specialist
>> > The Norcross Group
>> > www.NorcrossGroup.com
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