samba - Nov 2002 - Backup Samba Using ARCServe

Hi,

Has anyone have success backing up Samba share using ARCServe? I can
copy/modify files on the Samba share from the backup machine, but cannot
login using ARCServe for backup. Would someone please share their
experience? I thought windbind would work for the login facility.

Regards,
Norman

Hi Norman,

if you use winbind then you can access a share using normal windows NT boxes
like your Arcserve server.  However, you must use a DOMAIN Account(not unix
account), ie.  MYDOMAIN\Administrator.

You could map a temporary drive from NT lie this: net use t:
\\sambaserver\backupshare password /user:mydomain\Administrator

A problem is the area of file permissions and ACLS.  First of all your
backup account must have read permission to this share for this to work.
Secondly I am quite certain that a restore with Arcserve will not have the
correct permissions /acls.  

I get around this by using "tar -cp" to make a first unix backup
capturing
permission settings.  Arcserve then simply collects the tar files from this
share.  If you use ACLs you need to use a different unix utility like
"star"
or "xfsdump" (if you use an XFS file system).

Some versions of Arcserve can only backup local files...


hope this helps

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> 
> Message: 18
> From: "Norman Zhang" <nzhang@arkon-group.com>
> To: <samba@lists.samba.org>
> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:40:40 -0800
> Subject: [Samba] Backup Samba Using ARCServe
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone have success backing up Samba share using 
> ARCServe? I can copy/modify files on the Samba share from the 
> backup machine, but cannot login using ARCServe for backup. 
> Would someone please share their experience? I thought 
> windbind would work for the login facility.
> 
> Regards,
> Norman
>