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"PhWashington" <PhWashington@attbi.com> wrote in message
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> Jimmy //Super Fly// Bly wrote:
>
> > need to place >200MB worth files somewhere where they be accessible to
the
> > network & very reliable, won't crash as often as a win98 workstation
acting
> > as server also.
> >
> > 1.  dedicated server (win98)
> > 2.  dedicated server (win2000 pro)
> > 3.  dedicated server (Linux (Mandrake 8.2?) with Samba) can files such
as
> > quickbooks for windows be transfered to & accessed on a Linux machine?
> > 4.  network attached storage device with print server & DHCP
> >
> > what is the best way to automatically backup on a daily basis with very
> > little user interaction?
> >
> > thank you
> >
>
> I currently have a couple of W2K computers a W98 computer and 3 Samba
> servers working as file servers and backup servers.  One Samba server
> contains about 22 GB of files while another is used as a backup.  Every
> night a script is ran which does an rsync of one server to update the
> other server.
>
>
>
> For just a vanilla backup I run a script with
>
> smbumount /opt/CompBackup
> umount /opt/CompBackup
> smbmount //Computer/Share /opt/CompBackup -o
>      [oneline] username="userid",password="password"
> cd /opt/CompBackup
> rsync -ruotpv * /savedfiles/CompBackup
>
> this copies the new stuff in //Computer/Share to /savedfiles/CompBackup
>
> More recently I also began creating a directory tree with cpio and
> copying files for an incremental backup. Using
>
> find . -type d | cpio -pdum /file/DirTree
> to create the directory tree
>
> find /directory -mtime -1 > somefile.txt
> to create the list of files
>
> I then mv the DirTree to a directory name made with a date
> and then read from the list and cp the files to the directory tree.
>
> { Thanks to John Wingate and David(thunderbolt01) for their help with
> this script) and thanks to Google for keeping a record so I could
> include my appreciation for their help.  I know I saved the original
> just not sure where.
>
> The other Samba server is used for personal backups of files and I only
> have one NT and one W2K system which are currently automatically being
> backed up.  Neither one of this systems currently amounts to 2GB total
> and I'm not quite sure how much data transfers every night.  On the 22GB
> file share when I have monitored the transfer it was never over 500 MB
> per night.
>
> We also have about $2000 invested in a 240GB tape drive system that goes
> down about once a month.  On top of that I can usually restore from the
> backup samba server before we can find the file on tape.  2 of the Samba
> servers have 40GB in Raid1 configuration and 1 has 100 GB in Raid1
> configuration.  The 3 Samba servers in total cost about $2300.  These
> were new minimum hardware computers.
> There's about 50GB of operation data logs from equipment which is  kept
> on one of the servers. In the last 2 months I'm the only one to access
> it, but I guess it gives the Engineers a warm fuzzy feeling knowing its
> there.  We started out with a W98 computer as a file server that locked
> up fairly often and we also had problems with protecting files
> (permissions).

wow, some setup you have there.  i'm a IT consultant for a rapidly growing
construction company.  currently, they have about 10 nodes, including the
server.  which is running win98, but as you know, it crashes fairly often.
especially since for the most part, it is being used as a workstation by the
president of the company.  so, i'm on the hunt for a better server & backup
solution.

thanks for the reply.  i'll be saving your post for future reference.