On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Tom Brown wrote: > >> I have a couple C5 systems I want to back up. My plan is to, one way or >> another, back them up to a C5 machine in my office. I have samba installed >> on the systems to back up, the machines are mounted on the system in my >> office, and a tape library hanging of the system in my office. >> >> I was hoping to perform a simple /sbin/dump of the remote systems. I put >> together a script for another successful backup I have going on a system >> with local filesystems. But for remote filesystems, I get errors of File >> Cannot Be Accessed (//remote_system/subdir) which does exist as an smb >> mounted filesystem. >> >> I'd use NFS, but I would like a bit more control and some level of >> encryption for the user authentication and data being transferred. >> >> If a direct dump of remote smb filesystems isn't possible, I may opt to >> have each system perform their own local dumps, then run a script locally >> on the tape-connected machine to dump those local dumps, or copy the dumps >> locally then dump them to tape. >> >> If nothing else works, I can always install Windows XP and use Windows >> backup program, but I'd really like to try and get this going under Linux >> before going that route. > > use amanda, www.amanda.org > > it rocks My fundamental question is why dump claims it cannot access what I want it to back up. What's to say other solutions - Amanda, etc, will work any better? I want to know how to resolve the source problem before looking into other products. How will BackupPC or Amanda do any better? Thanks. Scott