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...iticisms etc... I googled for "samba backup" but could not find many similar solutions. need... Full/incremental network backups for 2=nt and 1=win2k servers. Ability to choose which folders/files get included/excluded. No software costs. motivation... Full drive backups exceed 1 dds3 tape but some files do not need backup. NT backup makes include/exclude difficult. win2k backup difficult to script. Will move from NT to linux/samba eventually. Tape drive failures cause main server downtime. gameplan... Build Linux-samba box with 3 dds3 drives and 4 100Mb nics. Add another...

...ritical and only somewhat volatile data onto DVD kept on-site in a fireproof vault. 4. Semi-automated archiving of the rest onto tape on a weekly basis and moving these off-site (the backup job is automatically scheduled but the media has to be manually handled). We currently use an internal DDS3 tape unit for store-to-tape and are considering changing to an external DLT drive. I would welcome comments regarding a suitable choice of external DLT tape drives for this application. We have used an external SCSI DLT device in the past but this device needs to be replaced and are open to...