Re: Win32 Backup?
"Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> One way I have done it is to use MS's backup program to backup to a >> samba share on a freebsd box. MS backup will happily backup to a samba >> share. Then I just backup all that stuff using amanda. > >beware of backing up via NT Backup to a samba share, always verify the >contents of the file. I ran into a problem wher it appeared to be backing up >just fine, and created a huge BKF file, but it was full of zeros and >unusable... I've been using ntbackup to files on samba share for a number of weeks now, haven't seen any problems. I do have the verify flag on. Perhaps it's the samba version or config, or maybe networking issues? Just a thought. I did have to alter my original schedule/dump type in ntbackup. I was getting tape overruns due to that fact that amanda has no control of the w2k boxes schedule/dump type. It would be very cool if some smart win programmer could write wrappers for ntbackup.exe so that amanda could control it directly. Also, I copy over the ntbackup log files at the end of the script. Seems it can only have 10 log files at a time. Ntbackup in w2k is pretty useful. Although Veritas did write it for them. -- toby bluhm philips medical systems, it support, mr development, cleveland ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-483-5323
Re: Win32 Backup?
> One way I have done it is to use MS's backup program to backup to a > samba share on a freebsd box. MS backup will happily backup to a samba > share. Then I just backup all that stuff using amanda. beware of backing up via NT Backup to a samba share, always verify the contents of the file. I ran into a problem wher it appeared to be backing up just fine, and created a huge BKF file, but it was full of zeros and unusable... Steve
Re: Win32 Backup?
I've had weird stuff happen to me when writing across samba mounts -- the files would quietly disappear under the Nethood pseudo-directory, eating up disk space while being inaccessible. Associating the mounts with drive letters seems to avoid this.
Re: Win32 Backup?
Anthony A. D. Talltree wrote: I've never had to do this, but an approach that I'd probably persue would be to use Symmantec/Norton Ghost to create occasional disk images that would get xferred via Samba to a *ix filesystem. I'd try real hard to keep important data off of the M$ machine's local disks. One way I have done it is to use MS's backup program to backup to a samba share on a freebsd box. MS backup will happily backup to a samba share. Then I just backup all that stuff using amanda. I've used MS backup on XP Pro and w2kpro this way and it works pretty well for my needs. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org
Re: Win32 Backup?
I've never had to do this, but an approach that I'd probably persue would be to use Symmantec/Norton Ghost to create occasional disk images that would get xferred via Samba to a *ix filesystem. I'd try real hard to keep important data off of the M$ machine's local disks.
Re: Win32 Backup?
> > I've used Amanda before in a Unix-only shop, but now am interested in > > backing up Win32 clients. > > > > I see Amanda.Org still seems to hold the official line of "use smbclient > > to backup Win32 clients," but there's a port of Amanda client to Win32 > > at http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32 which appears to have > > about 5-15 downloads daily for the last week or two. > > I can't tell you much, but I can tell that the official 2.4.4 version > supports the cygwin environment. There have been a number of messages on > this recently -- search the archives. Okay, I searched the archives. There is some conjecture that the Win32 client is not too recent, but there doesn't seem to be anything concrete. Someone else said the 'sbmclient' method gives problems when the user setup to do the backups on the Win32 client don't have permissions to back up the machine. Cygwin method requires first installing Cygwin on every client, right? smbclient method requires only creating a user on every client. So unless every Win32 client has Cygwin installed... would it be safe to say that The One Right Way to do Win32 backups is: - Setup a local administrator on the client (say, "amanda") - Use smbclient at the server to backup - Don't use the Win32 client at SourceForge (it's out-of-date) ? -- pv
Re: Win32 Backup?
On 4 Mar 2003 at 10:54am, philo vivero wrote > I've used Amanda before in a Unix-only shop, but now am interested in > backing up Win32 clients. > > I see Amanda.Org still seems to hold the official line of "use smbclient > to backup Win32 clients," but there's a port of Amanda client to Win32 > at http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32 which appears to have > about 5-15 downloads daily for the last week or two. > > What can you tell me about the Win32 port of Amanda client software? Is > it appropriate for backing up a heterogenous Win'95, Win'98, Win'XP, > Win'2K network? What are the 'gotchas'? I can't tell you much, but I can tell that the official 2.4.4 version supports the cygwin environment. There have been a number of messages on this recently -- search the archives. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
