Hi I have a Linux/XFS/Samba that Windows Domain users access through client machines either by UNC or mapped drive. I am trying to work out a backup plan. I would like to use ntbackup to achieve this with Normal (once) and Differential (daily) backups. However, when I run the normal backup the archive checkbox does not get cleared so the differential backup backs up everything again. I have realized that "map archive" maps the archive to the owner x it in Linux. So I have tried map archive = no. But when i run backup the archive checkbox does not change. Please let me know if this is a possible solution and if there are any other directives I need to make this work. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ntbackup-and-samba-tf4716463.html#a13482630 Sent from the Samba - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Why not run backup software on the server? In my experience NT Backup tends to be a little flakey (doublely so when working with network files or tapes). When you say "Normal (once)" do you mean literally "once"? Just remember that in order to restore from a differential backup, you need a reliable copy of the original, and over time, the difference between the original and diff. will reduce, eventually you will probably wind up copying just as much data as if you were doing a full backup, but without the ability to do a restore like a full backup. -- Michael cent9ur wrote:> Hi > > I have a Linux/XFS/Samba that Windows Domain users access through client > machines either by UNC or mapped drive. > > I am trying to work out a backup plan. I would like to use ntbackup to > achieve this with Normal (once) and Differential (daily) backups. > > However, when I run the normal backup the archive checkbox does not get > cleared so the differential backup backs up everything again. > > I have realized that "map archive" maps the archive to the owner x it in > Linux. So I have tried map archive = no. But when i run backup the archive > checkbox does not change. > > Please let me know if this is a possible solution and if there are any other > directives I need to make this work. > > Thanks >
Hello, Not a problem to acchive but here is a couple of things to consider 1. ntbackup is not considered to be any good alternative bacula would be better www.bacula.org secondly don't do differential backups, everytime you are doing the backup it has to check the time stamp if it differs any from what it has on the tape then decide to backup the file or not, takes a loooong time to do and not really a safe way of backing up. Regards Per> > Hi > > I have a Linux/XFS/Samba that Windows Domain users access through client > machines either by UNC or mapped drive. > > I am trying to work out a backup plan. I would like to use ntbackup to > achieve this with Normal (once) and Differential (daily) backups. > > However, when I run the normal backup the archive checkbox does not get > cleared so the differential backup backs up everything again. > > I have realized that "map archive" maps the archive to the owner x it in > Linux. So I have tried map archive = no. But when i run backup the > archive > checkbox does not change. > > Please let me know if this is a possible solution and if there are any > other > directives I need to make this work. > > Thanks > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/ntbackup-and-samba-tf4716463.html#a13482630 > Sent from the Samba - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
Hi Micheal, qvindesland Thanks for your replies. I would like to refrain from some other backup tool as much as possible as I have a number of other servers which I am backing up with ntbackup. I should explain some things more clearly. 1. The samba share was a windows file share before. I migrated the share only to the debian box. 2. I am only looking to backup the share data and not the server itself. That is done by some other means. 3. On Windows I used ntbackup to perform a normal backup once a week to a removable hard drive for the share only. The daily differential backups go to the same device and I maintain them in a seperate bkf. This only includes files that changed since my last normal backup. From my understanding this is because the archive attribute gets cleared on a normal backups. This saves me some space and time. Since I moved to the samba share I am unable to maintain this strategy as the archive attribute does not seem to work the same way. 4. For example, if I change the attribute (uncheck) and then change the file content, the attribute does not get checked (this works on windows ntfs). On samba, this does nothing to the checkbox. Also, I have noticed that once I change a file, the created, modified and accessed time stamps seem to change altogether. What options do I use to keep these consistent to windows behaviour. Thank you cent9ur wrote:> > Hi > > I have a Linux/XFS/Samba that Windows Domain users access through client > machines either by UNC or mapped drive. > > I am trying to work out a backup plan. I would like to use ntbackup to > achieve this with Normal (once) and Differential (daily) backups. > > However, when I run the normal backup the archive checkbox does not get > cleared so the differential backup backs up everything again. > > I have realized that "map archive" maps the archive to the owner x it in > Linux. So I have tried map archive = no. But when i run backup the > archive checkbox does not change. > > Please let me know if this is a possible solution and if there are any > other directives I need to make this work. > > Thanks >-- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ntbackup-and-samba-tf4716463.html#a13483780 Sent from the Samba - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.