[Samba] Backup of shared data-files

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Thu Mar 14 21:06:08 UTC 2019


On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 21:52:52 +0100
Viktor Trojanovic via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> > On 14 Mar 2019, at 20:23, Rowland Penny via samba
> > <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 20:12:25 +0100
> > Viktor Trojanovic via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi Greg,
> >> 
> >> I'm assuming the reason for this was that Robert's answer pretty
> >> much covered it. Most backup tools still in development, and I'm
> >> including rsync here, do support extended attributes, so you're
> >> covered when it comes to ACL. The main question becomes if you
> >> need the backup itself to be encrypted, and if yes you might want
> >> to look at alternatives to rsync.
> >> 
> >> I heard good things about Borg that Robert mentioned, Rowland seems
> >> to use it, too. Personally, I currently use Restic which is similar
> >> to Borg but supports S3 type storage.
> >>   
> > 
> > ER, no I don't ;-)
> > 
> > I use a variation of the Sysvol rsync method.
> > 
> > Rowland
> > 
> >   
> Must have mixed something up, sorry :)

No problem, to be honest, until it was mentioned, I hadn't heard of
Borg as a backup server, I thought it was a life form off Star Trek
TNG ;-)

Rowland



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