> 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 > Message-ID: > <Pine.GSO.4.64L.0708172056230.29233 at 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