Re: Is it possible: using ftp share as holding disk/diskbackup ?

[Eugen Leitl]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi everybody!
We have recently rented a root server in germany and installed  debian 
sarge on it. A ftp share as large as the install HD is included in the 
server package accessable authenticated.

My question is:  Is  it possible at the time now to write the amanda 
backup directly onto the ftp share (AKA as holding disk)? Are there any 
options (usermount programs) to mount the ftp share as a "virtual" 
holding disk and has this whole procedure ever been executed 
successfully and documented?   
Have you looked into http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
?
Of course, you'd need rsync + ssh + real filesystem (with symlinks) on 
the other end (I'm currently just doing a crontabbed rsync to a remote
machine, which can sit at home if you have broadband -- it's downstream, 
not upstream the limit here).

I'd like  to use this kind of  "tapes"...
Greeting from Austria
Vlad Popa

Re: Is it possible: using ftp share as holding disk/diskbackup ?

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 04 January 2005 20:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi everybody!
>
>We have recently rented a root server in germany and installed 
> debian sarge on it. A ftp share as large as the install HD is
> included in the server package accessable authenticated.
>
>My question is:  Is  it possible at the time now to write the amanda
> backup directly onto the ftp share (AKA as holding disk)? Are there
> any options (usermount programs) to mount the ftp share as a
> "virtual" holding disk and has this whole procedure ever been
> executed successfully and documented?
>
>I'd like  to use this kind of  "tapes"...
>
>Greeting from Austria
>
>Vlad Popa

If that share is mountable with the std mount command, I believe it 
can work as a vtapes like repository.

However, if its to be mounted as a samba share, probably not, mainly 
because samba throws away so much information about the attributes of 
a file.

-- 
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