Thanks for all the options given, i will work on them and give feedback, it will be my honour to have online or automated backup system and active directory as well. Regards, Damas. On 10/19/11, Alain Péan <alain.pean at lpp.polytechnique.fr> wrote: > Le 19/10/2011 17:43, Les Mikesell a écrit : >> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Damas Ally<damastz at gmail.com> wrote: >>> I have centos 5.7 (server). I need to configure it for backup system, >>> that >>> means it have to back up or back up documents shall be posted or send to >>> this server from various users (clients using windows machine and >>> ubuntu). >>> Can someone help me with instructions on how i can make this possible? >>> And >>> /or is it possible to set active directory on this machine and if >>> possible >>> how? >>> Please help, i am not good enough on centos. >> Backuppc is about as good as it gets for online backups. It is >> packaged in EPEL but you can find docs and mail list info at >> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/. If you want tape backups, look at >> amanda or bacula. >> > > And even if dated, this wiki doc is a good help for configuration under > CentOS : > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupPC > > And this one helped me a lot to configure user authentication on Active > Directory : > http://tastycrepes.blogspot.com/2010/07/active-directory-and-backuppc.html > > Hope this helps... > > Alain > > -- > ========================================================== > Alain Péan - LPP/CNRS > Administrateur Système/Réseau > Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas - UMR 7648 > Observatoire de Saint-Maur > 4, av de Neptune, Bat. A > 94100 Saint-Maur des Fossés > Tel : 01-45-11-42-39 - Fax : 01-48-89-44-33 > ========================================================== > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Sent from my mobile device "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door". Says, Makweba Sir