What is the best way to backup my NT 4.0 Server box that is only 8GB to my NEW SAMBA file server that I have added to the domain?
Xcopy? Smbclient? Robocopy? DD command in Linux? I found some good info. on Google about Robocopy that is supposed to be great and will paste the information below. Also, can someone SEND me the latest copy of ROBOCOPY VERSION 1.92 please. I have a really old version and would like 1.92 because it has the mirror function. Thanks, Andy Here is what I found about robocopy: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- I hate to say this but my solution to this problem was to use an NT machine to execute the copying. The NT resource kit has these utilities and is a free download from Redmond. Nt has a neat utility called Robocopy which can copy and delete files so directories can be mirrored with a minimum of trouble. Bill's boys actually wrote some decent docs. Using robocopy I run a batch file every night from the NT which copies the other NT's to a Samba share then backup There is a NT utility WinAT that does the cron trick for NT although you can do the at commands at the command prompt The batch file is on my d: drive the command for at is back.cmd The commands in back.cmd are as follows: robocopy \\server1\ \\bigserver\aback /mir robocopy \\server2\ \\bigserver\bback /mir XD queues Only trick was to create a backup user for each NT machine Perhaps the easiest way to check this is to install robocopy.exe from the NT Workstation / NT Server / Windows 2000 resource kit (if you don't have it, it really is worth gettting one...), and try copying the entire users directory tree to a spare drive or directory on your server (or even another workstation). e.g. the following robocopy command will attempt to copy (mirror) the directory c:\test and all it contains (files+dirs) to the directory c:\test_copy. (Make sure you have enough room on the target drive / directory!). "/log:copy_test.log" will cause a log file called copy_test.log to be created. "/r:0" will prevent retries on errors. "/mir" means mirror the source - i.e. all files/dirs. robocopy c:\test c:\test_copy /log:copy_test.log /r:0 /mir Run the commend, go and have a coffee while it runs, and read the summary report on the screen (it will tell you how many files failed to copy), then check through the copy_test.log file and search for "access denied" error messages... which will show you exactly which files failed and why. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba