CentOS - Feb 2011 - Samba or NFS

Hello

Thinking of setup a backup process between two Centos systems.
One will backup to the other one. For those people out there with
Centos production severs what would you recommend to use

Samba or NFS

What is the most common and simple to use?

Many thanks in advance

Alfredo
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 05:43:46PM -0500, Alfredo Perez wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Thinking of setup a backup process between two Centos systems.
> One will backup to the other one. For those people out there with
> Centos production severs what would you recommend to use
Do you mean you want the backup machine to be essentially 
a copy of the main machine?   Or do you mean you just want to
store backup files on the backup machine?

> 
> Samba or NFS
Samba or NFS???   No

To do the first - maintain a copy of the first machine on the
backup machine, use rsync and ssh for 'authentication' and 
data transmission.

For the other, keeping backup files on the other machine, 
use dump(8) over the net to the files on the backup machine.
> 
> What is the most common and simple to use?
As above.

////jerry

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> Many thanks in advance
> 
> Alfredo
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> Thinking of setup a backup process between two Centos systems.
> One will backup to the other one. For those people out there with
> Centos production severs what would you recommend to use
>
> Samba or NFS
>
rsync+ssh

At Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:43:46 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at
centos.org> wrote:
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> 
> Hello
> 
> Thinking of setup a backup process between two Centos systems.
> One will backup to the other one. For those people out there with
> Centos production severs what would you recommend to use
> 
> Samba or NFS
> 
> What is the most common and simple to use?
> 
> Many thanks in advance
There is little reason to use Samba between two *UNIX* (Linux) systems. 
NFS is more seamlessly integrated in UNIX systems.

OTOH, for mere backup using rsync and ssh might work even better and be
somewhat simplier.
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