I do a similar backup of my server to a separate windows machine on a nighly
basis using cron and smbclient and then burn to CD once per week.
(1) Use smbclient to mount a windows share to copy your server files to
(2) cp -auvf /var/(webserver dir) /mnt/computername/(backup dir)
(3) umount /mnt/computername
(4) set a cron job to run it whenever you want.
Nothing fancy, but in the event of a server failue, all you need to do is roll
the files back in from the 2nd machine.
dnickel wrote:
> Our webservers are running a freebsd 4.2 servers. Our version of Veritas
does not have a client for FreeBSD. I would like to use samba to make a complete
backup of our server. Does anybody have any suggestions on what type of share to
setup and how to setup authentication to share. We need to do a full makeup on
all of the filesystems on the server.
> Thanks
>
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couldn't have guessed."
>
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> C.S. Lewis
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