At 04:25 PM 1/9/02 -0500, - - wrote: >Thanks for your input. I thought of the way you described, but I just want >to experiment with Linux system. So, I kinda prefer to doing so with Linux >filesystem and commands... We've been using this for backing up our Linux boxen for almost a year. Works pretty well.
We run the script from a cron job early in the morning, well before the default 0400 daily cron job schedule, and then the tape drive on the Windows machine backs up every evening. With two previous generations on the hard drive, we're well able to quickly restore stuff if we have to. For what it's worth, here's the SAMBA command we use from the LINUX script (Sorry that it wraps badly. :): ===QUOTE=== # Mount the backup folder mount -t smbfs -o rw,username=xxxxxxxx,password=xxxxxxxx //linnaeus/backup /mnt/backup ===END=== We tar up the directories we're interested in, save two previous generations of the tar files on the server, and then send an e-mail to the administrator listing the archives on the server share. ...brig -- Brig C. McCoy 5109 Cherry St Head, Systems Office Kansas City, MO 64110 USA Linda Hall Library of Science, 816 926-8749 PHN, -8790 FAX Engineering, and Technology <http://www.lindahall.org> _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
