[CentOS] Dump on remote filesystems?

[Tony Molloy]

On Tuesday 29 January 2008 12:43:48 Tom Brown wrote:
> > I have a couple C5 systems I want to back up.  My plan is to, one way
> > or another, back them up to a C5 machine in my office.  I have samba
> > installed on the systems to back up, the machines are mounted on the
> > system in my office, and a tape library hanging of the system in my
> > office.
> >
> > I was hoping to perform a simple /sbin/dump of the remote systems.  I
> > put together a script for another successful backup I have going on a
> > system with local filesystems.  But for remote filesystems, I get
> > errors of File Cannot Be Accessed (//remote_system/subdir) which does
> > exist as an smb mounted filesystem.
> >
> > I'd use NFS, but I would like a bit more control and some level of
> > encryption for the user authentication and data being transferred.
> >
> > If a direct dump of remote smb filesystems isn't possible, I may opt
> > to have each system perform their own local dumps, then run a script
> > locally on the tape-connected machine to dump those local dumps, or
> > copy the dumps locally then dump them to tape.
> >
> > If nothing else works, I can always install Windows XP and use Windows
> > backup program, but I'd really like to try and get this going under
> > Linux before going that route.
>
> use amanda, www.amanda.org
>
> it rocks
>

Or have a look at BackupPC <http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/>

Tony
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