On Wednesday 24 December 2003 14:34, vlad f halilow wrote: >so, any addition notes for win32 backup. possibly it would be >interesting for someone. there are three way to complete >order. > >1) amanda-win32 client http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32/ >is a natie way. this soft is a port of amanda client to win32 >platform. but project died(?) two yers ago in beta stage. i tryed to >use it - false. any kind of problem, which i can't solve bicouse >haven't enough C/C++ expereince. as fact: useless :( > >2) backup windows host via smbtar. semi-native way. one trouble: we >need read access from foreign host (amanda server) for all > data...and password for smbtar saved as clear text... iles contain > commercial information.. hmm.. if anything got amanda-servers under > control - all information can be stealed... no my way. > >3) third, and best solution founded: all backup created and crypted > on win32 host. we don't need read-on-all access from network. so > all backups secured. not native: backup initiated by third-party > program, not amanda-server. > >we need any software like unix 'crond' (i use nncron-lite >http://www.nncron.ru/), and any archivator. my choose - winrar. i >don't use windows scheduler for it. don't ask why. so. crond must > run under account that have read/write permisiion on all data. it's > bad, but more secured than smbtar . and by weekend it run .bat file > like this (for winrar) > >---------------- >c:\progra~1\winrar\rar a -ac -idp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\backup\excl -ow -ri7 \ >-pPASSWORDFORCRYPT -r -m1 -ag -ilogl:\others.err -y \ >l:\DESTINATIONFILE.rar d:\absolute d:\bill d:\work > > l:\others_full.log --------------- > >we execute rar with some kind of parameters for full backup, save > ntfs permisiion and clear the archive bit. archive stored in file > with name contained current timestamp. > > and every workdays i run command >like this: > >---------------- >c:\progra~1\winrar\rar a -ac -idp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\backup\excl -ow -ri7 \ >-pPASSWORD -r -m1 -ag -ilogl:\others_diff.err -y -ao \ >l:\DESTINATIONFILE.rar d:\techdocs d:\whiteboard d:\work > > l:\others_diff.log --------------- > >similar previous, but backing-up only files with archive-bit set. so > we have full backup, and daily differents in timestamped files. > >disk l: in my configuration, is a nfs-mounted partition from >amanda-server. you can install samba on amanda-server and store > files to it, or just drop files to local disk, and later retreive > it by smbtar utility from amanda - as your wish. so, if you need > restore files from archive: just extract archive from tape, send it > to windows host and unrar it. manual - but strong stable :)
Sounds like a good solution, particularly in that the data doesn't leave the 'secure site' until its been smunched, a rather effective encryption considering the number of different data smunchers there are about. Recovery is a bit more complex, but not that much. Thanks for posting that synopsis, Vlad, and Merry Christmas if you celebrate that. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.