Backup question for RedHat Samba Server

[Darin Perusich]

i've been running amanda for network backups for almost 4 years now and 
i'd strongly recommend it over any other backup agent i've come across. 
it's extremely flexable, runs on every systems i've ever tried it on, or 
had a need to backup, uses the systems native dump or tar ( never user 
Sun native tar get gnu). in case of a disaster the only utilities that 
you need to recover archives from tape are dd and dump or tar. trying 
doing that with a commercial product!


Todd Wirth wrote:
> I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but if you're looking for a total
> network backup solution(including Windoze shares) you can check out AMANDA:
> http://www.amanda.org/
> 
> I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, but it looks like it will do the
> job I'm looking for. If I'm not mistaken it uses tar, but I think thats just
> a configuration option as w/ everything else.
> 
> -- Todd
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org]On Behalf Of
> arctic 91
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:21 AM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Backup question for RedHat Samba Server
> 
> 
> Hello,
>    Well since most of my testing is down for the migration to Samba off of
> Novell, one big question I have is for backups. We always use Tar on our
> unix web server. Is this going to server us well for a File server? I know
> through webmin it has a file system backup with dump, has anyone used that
> at all? The drives will have multiple mounts for the system, isn't it true
> with tar you need a seperate tape per mount? Any information would be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
>    Carl
> 
> 


-- 
Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com