program for backups to windows network file server?

Hewson · 04-02-2007, 02:38 PM

Greetings all.

Last week i accidentally overwrote 6hrs worth of work with a single ':w' in VIM.

I kept putting off setting up a backup solution.

I have a fedora core 6 box connected to a network with a windows file server.

Since I'm going through the effort of setting up a back up solution, I want nightly backups of /home to my windows file server.

What program(s) do you guys recommend for this? I suppose I'll need samba to interact correctly w/ the windows file server...

thanks

steve

mcupples · 04-02-2007, 03:09 PM

As far as I know that's all you need. It's strange that you're backing up linux files to a windows server. Usually it's the other way around.

Hewson · 04-02-2007, 03:23 PM

re: backing up linux to windows: heh. I agree, but i'm the lone linux fish in a sea of windows.

re:samba is the only program I need: the program i'm looking for is something to automate the process of backing up my /home

steve

rshaw · 04-02-2007, 04:24 PM

moving to networking

Micro420 · 04-02-2007, 07:51 PM

Hewson, just write a rsync script and stick that in your crontab. problem solved!

Code:

#example backup.sh script

SOURCE=/home
DEST=/mnt/windows/home-backup
#optional log
LOG=/tmp/`date +%b-%d`.log

rsync -azv $SOURCE $DEST 2&> $LOG

#finished
exit

#Pi is 3.14

Hewson · 04-02-2007, 07:53 PM

Great thanks.

I ran across a way to do incremental backups w/ rsync

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/r...hots/#Abstract

cheers.