samba - Sep 1997 - Arcada BackupExec

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Tim Sailer said:
>Has anyone ever tried to use Arcada's BackupExec with samba? We are
trying
>to automate our entire backup procedure (what a conecpt!) using BackupExec
>running on an NT4.0 WS machine. We have no problems with the NT or 95
>boxs, but when it tries to touch a samba share (both .16 and .17 versions),
>it just hangs for long periods of time.
Are you sharing the Entire samba server, including / ? If not,
you would be better off backing it up separately.
 
Regards Anthony

Hello Tim,
Hello Samba Readers,


first, I hope nobody at Cheyenne Software is reading this, and if
someone does, I apologize...:)

I found a cheaper solution for backing up data from the PC boxes through
the smbtar command. I did a simple script and it works quite fine by
now... Maybe it's not so coloful as Arcada could be (haven't seen it
yet) but it's certainly not so expensive compared to that.

What I did:
	
	- created a user called "root" on the WinNT box and gave it the
priviledges needed (the Win95 side gives no problems at the moment...)

	- on the UNIX side, created files containing the files/directories to
be backed up periodically (depends on your backups policy, of course)
and put them together under a directory i.e. SAMBA_BACKUPS (or whatever)

	- created a simple ksh script where the whole process is defined. It
reads the lists of files described above from the shared sources and
creates a nice .tgz archive on a desired destination.

Just put it as a cronjob and that's it! =B) 

I hope this helps you further. If someone out there knows of a
better/faster/accurated way to do that, *please* contact me!


Best regards,

/M@rtin
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>Has anyone ever tried to use Arcada's BackupExec with samba? We are
trying
>to automate our entire backup procedure (what a conecpt!) using BackupExec
>running on an NT4.0 WS machine. We have no problems with the NT or 95
>boxs, but when it tries to touch a samba share (both .16 and .17 versions),
>it just hangs for long periods of time.
>
>Does anyone have a pointer?
>
>Thanks,
>Tim
>
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We use the NT backup package (a stripped version of Seagate's Backup Exec,
AKA Arcada Backup Exec)
to back up our web directories every night (Samba 1.9.17, BSD/OS 2.1).  I
created a share,

[web-stuff]
   comment = For network backup batch file
   path = /var/www
   valid users = backup	
   public = yes
   writable = yes
   printable = no
   create mask = 0664
   write list = @staff

I am using security = server with an NT PDC specified in the smb.conf file.
I was pleasantly suprised at the speed of the backups over the network -
averaging 220 MB in under 20
minutes to a Seagate 4mm dat drive.

Can you perform the backup manually while you are logged in on the NT WS? I
don't know if Backup
Exec uses the scheduler service to run it's unattended backups, or it has
it's own, but you should make
make sure that whoever it is logging in as on the Unix side has the appropriate
privs to read all files...

Good luck


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