[Samba] Backup software

[Greg Freemyer]

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. =20

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