[Samba] help

Jimmy McMillan jimmy at freshstation.org
Thu Jun 16 15:37:45 GMT 2005


I currently use bacula for 3 linux servers, 1 freebsd box, and 1 windows 
box.  It's great, allow a week for the configuration, it's rather 
confusing, but once it's up it runs like a champ!


Thomas M. Skeren III wrote:

> Fernando Ruza wrote:
>
>> A bit Off Topic. You can use bacula: http://www.bacula.org/
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Fernando.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 11:16 +0300, Amani Makala wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> hi!
>>> i need to configure a linux backup server, let me give u some hints 
>>> on the
>>> real environment, i have one linux machine and two windows machines, 
>>> now i
>>> need to make backup of files found on windows machine,but the backup 
>>> should
>>> be done on the linux machine. please anybody who can help me!
>>> thanks.
>>>
>>>   
>>
> Here's what I do:
>
> Mount the w2000 file share to back up:
> fresno# df -h
> Filesystem                     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad4s1a                    3.3G     57M    3.0G     2%    /
> devfs                          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
> /dev/ad4s4d                     64G    6.6G     53G    11%    /usr
> /dev/ad4s3d                    2.4G     20M    2.1G     1%    /var
> //MUSSOADMIN at SERVER/COMPANY     11G    6.4G    4.7G    58%    /w2000
>
>
> Then write a cron job:
>
> # Adjust the time zone if the CMOS clock keeps local time, as opposed to
> # UTC time.  See adjkerntz(8) for details.
> 1,31    0-5     *       *       *       root    adjkerntz -a
> 0       22      *       *       *       root    cp -R /w2000/ 
> /usr/backup/w2000/
> 45      3       *       *       *       root    tar -cyvf 
> /usr/backup/w2000.tar.bz2 /usr/backup/w2000
> 30      5       *       *       1       root    mv 
> /usr/backup/w2000.tar.bz2 /usr/daily/Mon/
> 30      5       *       *       2       root    mv 
> /usr/backup/w2000.tar.bz2 /usr/daily/Tues/
> 30      5       *       *       3       root    mv 
> /usr/backup/w2000.tar.bz2 /usr/daily/Wed/
> 30      5       *       *       4       root    mv 
> /usr/backup/w2000.tar.bz2 /usr/daily/Thurs/
>
>
>



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