[Samba] ntbackup and samba
cent9ur
sun.vijay at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 07:38:55 GMT 2007
Hi Micheal, qvindesland
Thanks for your replies. I would like to refrain from some other backup
tool as much as possible as I have a number of other servers which I am
backing up with ntbackup.
I should explain some things more clearly.
1. The samba share was a windows file share before. I migrated the share
only to the debian box.
2. I am only looking to backup the share data and not the server itself.
That is done by some other means.
3. On Windows I used ntbackup to perform a normal backup once a week to a
removable hard drive for the share only. The daily differential backups go
to the same device and I maintain them in a seperate bkf. This only
includes files that changed since my last normal backup. From my
understanding this is because the archive attribute gets cleared on a normal
backups. This saves me some space and time. Since I moved to the samba
share I am unable to maintain this strategy as the archive attribute does
not seem to work the same way.
4. For example, if I change the attribute (uncheck) and then change the file
content, the attribute does not get checked (this works on windows ntfs).
On samba, this does nothing to the checkbox. Also, I have noticed that once
I change a file, the created, modified and accessed time stamps seem to
change altogether. What options do I use to keep these consistent to
windows behaviour.
Thank you
cent9ur wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have a Linux/XFS/Samba that Windows Domain users access through client
> machines either by UNC or mapped drive.
>
> I am trying to work out a backup plan. I would like to use ntbackup to
> achieve this with Normal (once) and Differential (daily) backups.
>
> However, when I run the normal backup the archive checkbox does not get
> cleared so the differential backup backs up everything again.
>
> I have realized that "map archive" maps the archive to the owner x it in
> Linux. So I have tried map archive = no. But when i run backup the
> archive checkbox does not change.
>
> Please let me know if this is a possible solution and if there are any
> other directives I need to make this work.
>
> Thanks
>
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