RE: network backup advice

2001-09-08 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Brad Cramer wrote: I have a small network at home (4 linux machine 2 win98 machines) and I would like to know what would be the best way to back these up to one server that has a scsi dat drive. I have tries afbackup but am having a heck of a time getting it configured. Is there a simpler way

Re: network backup advice

2001-09-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya Mike yes... good point, you(a hacker/cracker) can remove the backups tooo ... no question ... but how many levels of backups and what type of backups one wants ??? ( one can do backups securely ... or not.. - sorta endless game... - once we are almost ready to use a crdom array

Re: network backup advice - windoze

2001-09-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya robert... havent had any problems using linux to backup windoze boxes... ( even if they had illegal linux filename chars that is allowed in windows windoze files names like: Tom's special excel spread sheet dd is NOT reliable...if the original disks has a bad block at 12345 on

RE: network backup advice -- rsyn + ssh

2001-09-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya from the examples...http://www.linux-Backup.net/examples.gwif.html rsync -e ssh -av [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/Backup/xfer/* xfer c ya alvin On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Donald R. Spoon wrote: Brad Cramer wrote: I have a small network at home (4 linux machine 2 win98 machines) and I would

Re: network backup advice - windoze

2001-09-08 Thread Robert Waldner
(*please* do *not* cc me on list-mail) On Sat, 08 Sep 2001 00:43:36 PDT, Alvin Oga writes: havent had any problems using linux to backup windoze boxes... Think disaster recovery, think windos nt: I surely *don´t* want to have to re-install the OS, the applications, make 100k settings and then

network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Brad Cramer
I have a small network at home (4 linux machine 2 win98 machines) and I would like to know what would be the best way to back these up to one server that has a scsi dat drive. I have tries afbackup but am having a heck of a time getting it configured. Is there a simpler way of doing this. I am

Re: network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:24:47AM -0500, Brad Cramer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have a small network at home (4 linux machine 2 win98 machines) and I would like to know what would be the best way to back these up to one server that has a scsi dat drive. I have tries afbackup but am having a

Re: network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya brad -- many hundred/thousands of ways to do backup... -- i implement something similar to your stuff.. BackupServer:/Backup/HOST/Month/day.tgz ( one of 3 place where all backup files are stored ) backup server should export the host directory to each host -- you

Re: network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: backup server should export the host directory to each host I'm not too sure about this, because if I manage to compromise the machien being backed up, I can remove your backups on the host server. I ended up setting up a central backup server, that

Re: network backup advice

2001-09-07 Thread Robert Waldner
-- backups for Win98 can be done similarly... - need to have samba installed on the linux box... and test that you can see the windoze shares - backup the windoze boxes from the backupserver itself Ok, so you can backup win9x-boxen, but what about other windos´s? The only