On Nov 20, 2007 12:43 PM, Ugo Bellavance ugob@lubik.ca wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to implement this:I have:
- A windows 2000 server
- A centos 4 server
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monthly.
The tape drive in the windows server died recently and I decided to switch to USB external drives. However, the USB controller in the windows server is only 1.1, so it is very slow.
I didn't want to install a 2.0 USB controller in the windows server since it is a brand-name and I didn't want to make it unstable, so I decided to make the backups of the windows server (using Backup Exec) on the linux box.
So backup exec writes on the linux box via samba, directly on the USB drive. (I thought of writing on the linux box FS directly, then rsync'ing to the USB drive), but the space available on the local FS is about 90 gigs while the external USB drives are 250 gigs, meaning that I can keep like 4 weeks of data on the USB drives (using backup exec settings), while I could only keep 1 or 2 weeks otherwise.
My questions is:
-how can the USB drives be umounted/mounted automatically when the person on site changes it (monday to tuesday, for example). There will always be only one HDD conected at the time.
Longtime ago, I did the some on a ZIP drive. I used "automountd" I think, I'm sure about "auto" not about the remainder The ZIP drive was unmounted when unused for more than 5min. And remounted when trying to access is mounting point.
I googled a little but did not find anything.
Otherwhise you can suppose your employee will change the tape at a know time and add a script in the cron to dismount 1H before.
Also you con dismount the drive using "plink" utility from window's putty package, from your windows server, when your backup is done!
Thanks, Ugo
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