FW: [Samba] RE: Backup Samba Using ARCServe

[Chris McKeever]

I am running veritas, and I needed to install a UNIX AGENT from veritas on
the linux box.  It didnt make much sense to me that I couldn't just do a
backup through the samba share...



-----Original Message-----
From: patrick.niessen at gerling.co.jp
[mailto:patrick.niessen at gerling.co.jp]
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 10:48 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] RE: Backup Samba Using ARCServe


Hi Norman,

if you use winbind then you can access a share using normal windows NT boxes
like your Arcserve server.  However, you must use a DOMAIN Account(not unix
account), ie.  MYDOMAIN\Administrator.

You could map a temporary drive from NT lie this: net use t:
\\sambaserver\backupshare password /user:mydomain\Administrator

A problem is the area of file permissions and ACLS.  First of all your
backup account must have read permission to this share for this to work.
Secondly I am quite certain that a restore with Arcserve will not have the
correct permissions /acls.  

I get around this by using "tar -cp" to make a first unix backup capturing
permission settings.  Arcserve then simply collects the tar files from this
share.  If you use ACLs you need to use a different unix utility like "star"
or "xfsdump" (if you use an XFS file system).

Some versions of Arcserve can only backup local files...


hope this helps

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> 
> Message: 18
> From: "Norman Zhang" <nzhang at arkon-group.com>
> To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:40:40 -0800
> Subject: [Samba] Backup Samba Using ARCServe
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone have success backing up Samba share using 
> ARCServe? I can copy/modify files on the Samba share from the 
> backup machine, but cannot login using ARCServe for backup. 
> Would someone please share their experience? I thought 
> windbind would work for the login facility.
> 
> Regards,
> Norman
> 
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