On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Dave Hecht wrote:
> I have just a couple M$oft Win2K boxes that I would like my newly installed
> Amanda system to backup. I do have NFS servers running on them and
> presently mount the data directory's, via NFS, onto a Linux box. Keeping in
> mind that I have < 50 GB of data (very little) , and have a 12 hour window
> for backups (yes, small network in an office) and I really am not worried
> about preserving ACL's - My question is:
>
> Which is easiest to maintain/setup - NFS mount the Win2k volumes onto the
> Linux box and use a gnu-tar-index backup, or install samba and use
> smbclient. I lean towards NFS, is there any reason I should not?
I would prefer NFS mounted volumes for the following reasons:
smbtar currently only supports doing incremental dumps via
a single archive bit, i.e. you only get level 0 and level 1 dumps.
If you have a dumpcycle of say two weeks the level 1 dump just before the
a level 0 dump will collect all changes of the last two weeks, which
can be quite a lot. However this depends on how often you data changes.
With NFS there is no such issue.
Hope this helps,
Martin
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