backing up linux server to a samba share

[Howard Lowndes]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Russell Weatherburn wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am contemplating how I want to do backups of my gateway server, and
> have come across something that is bugging me.
>
> I want to try to rsync from the linux box to a directory on a Win98 box
> that I have shared using Windows networking.  Currently this does work
> reasonably well, but the concern I have is that the UID of the files and
> directories are not stored on the Windows directory.

This will not retain UID, GID or full perms, but I find it good for
syncing between Windows boxen using Samba.

>
> My question is, am I able to do this?  Or would I be better off using
> something like tar to archive the files on the linux system, and then
> move them over to the samba share?
>
> The commands I have been using are:
> smbmount //host/share /mnt/mountpoint
> rsync -azv /home /mnt/mountpoint/
>
> TIA,
>
> Russell.
> --
>
> Russell Weatherburn
>
> mailto:russell at oxyoss.net
> http://www.oxyoss.net
>

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