> Picture a small office. All client machines are winsdows based (NTWK or Win9x).
>One Linux based file/print server. People will use this as a common share as well as
>personal shares. No monitor keyboard or mouse on the box. Configured and managed
>from a browser.
Sounds like a customer, no?
>>Not yet...;+}
> Any suggestions as how one could back this machine up? I don't want to leave any of
>the client machines up at night. All the shares will be on the same physical device.
> I could put a tape drive in the Linux box. So the backup would have to be entirely
>managed from a client in terms of scheduling it and verifying it, as well as ever
>recovering files from the tape.
Don't forget a 2nd disk can also function as a useful backup too. Don't know
enough about your situation to decide.
With 2nd disk, could use rsync(1) ...
True, and I'll have to read about rsync, but I was hoping for something a little more
"traditional" in terms of rotation and off-site storage.
Best,
Karl Runge
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