On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:40:05PM -0500, Lists wrote: > I would like to have two RH7.3 servers back-up every 8 hours into third RH7.3 >server's hard drive. I was thihking about mounting file systems of two servers into >third system via samba and do sopy function via cron(yes, I am fairly recent NT >convert), or try something else. > Any ideas?
You'd be better off with NFS instead of samba. I would leave samba for winblows interoperability. > I just want the back-up system to check if file is newer than most recent copy on >the back-up and if it is, make a copy and overwrite the old one. Bandwidth is not an >issue. Rsync is the way to go. And it's also bandwidth friendly. Oh btw, please wrap columns before 80 chars. > Thanks. > Anything with a GUI helps. For this, a GUI is overkill. And for crontab, the best interface is still vi :) Cheers, -- Javier Gostling Ingeniero de Sistemas Virtualia S.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fono: +56 (2) 202-6264 x 130 Fax: +56 (2) 342-8763 Av. Kennedy 5757, of 1502 Las Condes Santiago Chile
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