On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:18:12 -0500 Ugo Bellavance <ugob at lubik.ca> wrote: > 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. > Understood - Since you are using Exchange, brick-level restores are important. Oh well, just a thought. -- Best regards, Chris Registerd Linux user number 448639