[CentOS] Re: CentOS Digest, Vol 31, Issue 18

> Message: 26
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:56:38 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Scott Ehrlich <scott at MIT.EDU>
> Subject: [CentOS] Help with backups
> To: centos at centos.org
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> 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