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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).


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