> Would this be any more useful than having the clients backup to an i-bay > on the server named backup? The only difference is that whoever is using > the client machines (or whatever scheduled software jobs run on the client > machines) would need to backup to \\server\\backup rather than > \\mymachine\backup. > > What am I missing? Yes, I think you misunderstood the utility (by the way, I'm calling it smbarchive). Smbarcive scans the Samba domain/workgroup for any online clients with a share named backup. In short, it then archives all data from the client backup share to an ibay on the server specified in the configuration file (smbarchive.conf). As an aside, I've provided a configuration parameter in the smbarcive.conf file to exclude machines from the archive process so that the you avoid a situation where you backup the backups. For example, if I set smbarchive to store archives in a ibay named backup, I don't want to backup the backups (that was a bit of a tough twister).
My objective was to create a utility that would run on a routine basis to automatically archive mission critical data from my client machines to my SME server. Since my SME server is setup for nightly tape backup, the mission critical data gets backed up to the tape as well. Does this help? I just wanted to get a little feedback the folks in this forum before I finished it up. I'll put together a howto explaining how to setup and operate smbarchive before I post it here for the group to play with. Regards, Greg Zartman -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
