[CentOS] Backup Question

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 14:15 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> We are migrating an LTO2 library off Veritas and NTBackup on a Windows
> Server to a Linux Server with either Bacula or Amanda. Originally, the
> Windows server used scripts to sync changes from various other Windows
> servers using Robocopy to a locally attached set of volumes, then ran
> the backup nightly (Full’s were always done).
> 
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> 
> I now had hoped to rsync the Samba shares to a local replica on the
> Linux Server and then start the backup every night after it finishes.
> Would this be the most efficient way to do this, or are there better
> tools for this? I need an additional replica of the data, so using the
> Windows Bacula client doesn’t help, and I must be able to only
> replicate the changes or I’ll miss my backup window based on the
> volume of data.
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I think bacula has the ability to execute a script at start and thus you should be able to tell the Windows Server to execute the same robocopy script.

Craig