[Samba] backup NT box to SAMBA box using xcopy, smbclient, robocopy, or DD command ???

[Yura Pismerov]

Andy wrote:
> 
> What is the best way to backup my NT 4.0 Server box
> that is only 8GB to my NEW SAMBA file server that
> I have added to the domain?


	man smbtar


SMBTAR(1)                                               SMBTAR(1)

NAME
       smbtar  -  shell  script  for  backing  up SMB/CIFS shares
       directly to UNIX tape drives


> 
> Xcopy?  Smbclient?  Robocopy?  DD command in Linux?
> 
> I found some good info. on Google about Robocopy that is supposed
> to be great and will paste the information below.
> 
> Also, can someone SEND me the latest copy of ROBOCOPY VERSION 1.92
> please.  I have a really old version and would like 1.92 because it has
> the mirror function.  Thanks, Andy
> 
> Here is what I found about robocopy:
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> I hate to say this but my solution to this problem was to use an NT
> machine to execute the copying. The NT resource kit has these utilities
> and is a free download from Redmond.
> Nt has a neat utility called Robocopy which can copy and delete files so
> directories can be mirrored with a minimum of trouble. Bill's boys
> actually wrote some decent docs.
> Using robocopy I run a batch file every night from the NT which copies
> the other NT's to a Samba share then backup
> There is a NT utility WinAT that does the cron trick for NT although you
> can do the at commands at the command prompt
> The batch file is on my d: drive  the command for at is back.cmd
> The commands in back.cmd are as follows:
> robocopy \\server1\ \\bigserver\aback /mir
> robocopy \\server2\ \\bigserver\bback /mir XD queues
> Only trick was to create a backup user for each NT machine
> 
> Perhaps the easiest way to check this is to install robocopy.exe from the NT
> Workstation / NT Server / Windows 2000 resource kit (if
> you don't have it, it really is worth gettting one...), and try copying the
> entire users directory tree to a spare drive or
> directory on your server (or even another workstation).
> 
> e.g. the following robocopy command will attempt to copy (mirror) the
> directory c:\test and all it contains (files+dirs) to the
> directory c:\test_copy.  (Make sure you have enough room on the target drive
> / directory!).  "/log:copy_test.log" will cause a log
> file called copy_test.log to be created.  "/r:0" will prevent retries on
> errors.  "/mir" means mirror the source - i.e. all
> files/dirs.
> 
> robocopy c:\test c:\test_copy /log:copy_test.log /r:0 /mir
> 
> Run the commend, go and have a coffee while it runs, and read the summary
> report on the screen (it will tell you how many files
> failed to copy), then check through the copy_test.log file and search for
> "access denied" error messages...  which will show you
> exactly which files failed and why.
> 
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Yuri Pismerov, Sr. System Administrator, 
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