Message: 26 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:56:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Scott Ehrlich scott@MIT.EDU Subject: [CentOS] Help with backups To: centos@centos.org Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.64L.0708172056230.29233@biohazard-cafe.mit.edu Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
I've got a Redhat 5 server running Samba, and two dualboot CentOS 5 workstations.
Until we get a better backup strategy, I'm backing up the workstations to the server via mounting a shared samba drive to /mnt.
Trying tar cvf /mnt/samba_share/backup.tar /* eventually yields backing
up
/mnt, which produces an unwanted loop, including /mnt/samba_share
I looked at tar with --exclude /mnt but didn't seem to get the results I wanted.
I tried dump, which looked like it was working, but I have no idea what files it was backing up, and couldn't find an option in the man page to have it show me the files. I would have let it go, but since I couldn't be sure about /mnt recusion, I opted out of it.
I ended up, for now, tarring each top-level directory to its own tar
file,
except, of course, for /mnt.
What do people suggest?
Thanks.
Scott
Hi Scott,
I use backuppc to backup seven windows clients since February 2007 . It works like a charme.
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Cheers Kamill