On 29/01/2008 13:35, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, 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 > > My fundamental question is why dump claims it cannot access what I > want it to back up. What's to say other solutions - Amanda, etc, > will work any better? I want to know how to resolve the source > problem before looking into other products. How will BackupPC or > Amanda do any better? > > Thanks. > > Scott > I've never used dump before but reading the manpage seems to indicate that it's a tool for backing up an ext2/3 filesystem, not a CIFS filesystem which is essentialy how a Samba mount is seen by the kernel on your office machine. If I am correct here then I doubt it would work over NFS either. I can put my vote in for amanda as a good alternative. cheers Luke