> 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