On Thu, 18 May 2000, jim t.p. ryan wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
Yes... see below.
> I could put a tape drive in the Linux box.
Right.
> 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.
No. Manage it from the Linux box. Write a suitable script using dump(8)
or tar(1). Use cron to automate it. See:
man 8 dump
and
man 1 tar
Then, when you need to figure out how to restore files, see:
man 8 restore
or
man 1 tar
There is a good section on data archiving in Evi Nemeth's (et. al.)
_Unix_System_Administration_Handbook_. I suggest you give it a good
once-over.
Note to all GNHLUGers: Based on the number of times Paul and I have
mentioned this book, in order to save us both typing in the future, I'm
going to tell you now, GO GET THIS BOOK AND READ IT COVER TO COVER. It
WILL solve all your problems. :)
--
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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