Subject: samba/tar backing up Windows data
From: Andy (lug@firman.us)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 15:20:18 AKDT
The little script pasted below works great for doing full
backups everynight of several small 2000/NT servers I manage.
All the servers have less than 20GB of data. This is on-site backup.
(by the way, this is a great way to get Linux into small businesses)
But now I am doing an install where we need to backup over
50GB of data. Doing a full copy everynight seems like overkill
since we are dealing with a larger data volume.
Is there any way I can use mtime or something to do incremental
backups using a sambar/tar combination?
Rsync would be perfect but I have had no luck with it when
dealing with Windows servers. Rsync is awesome for backing
up Linux to Linux. Any other Linux tools I should look at?
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#!/bin/bash
mount -t smbfs -o username=administrator,password=admin //server/D$ /mnt
( tar cf - /mnt ) | ( cd /home/backup ; tar xpf - )
umount /mnt
echo This is to notify the backup is done tonight. | mail client@company.com
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Any comments are welcome.
--Thanks,
Andy Firman CompTIA Network+, A+, & Linux+ Certified http://www.firmanconsulting.com/
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