Chris wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:43:54 -0500 > Ugo Bellavance <ugob at 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. >> > > I can't answer on the auto mounting however, consider this - > Run something like BackupPC on the Cent box. That in turn allows rsync > to fetch from the Windows Server without the extra overhead of samba > etc. Ok, but we already have Backup Exec on the server, that can backup exchange, brick-level and full information store, system state, etc. I'm just looking for a way to be able to have backupExec to write to the external drive. Regards, Ugo