[Samba] Backup software

[Charles Marcus]

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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