backup Windows Server to Red Hat Linux
 

Hi

I want to backup Windows Server onto Red Hat Linux Server in the same office over LAN. To be more specific, I want to create a backup of the shared Folder/s that are on Windows Server to a backup directory on the Linux Server on the network. Specifically, I need to ONLY BACKUP DATA & not create a mirror or anything.

MS server is MS Windows 2003 SBS & Linux Server is RHEL4 Fedora Core 5. Your help will be appreciated.

Regards

Kshitiz

back up what?? you really need to give a LOT more useful information than that. at the most base level you can configure samba to provide a windows share to the windows machines...

You could mount the 2003 share, then run a CRON job to copy all of the data to another location:

[HTML]mkdir /mnt/2003server
mount -t cifs //2003servername/sharename /mnt/2003server -o username=username,workgroup=domainname[/HTML]

<it should ask you for the password - type your password and hit enter>

<Then you do the following if the above worked (I am not too sure off hand as to the exact mount command - play with it a bit)>

[HTML]crontab -e[/HTML]

<type in the following or similar and save it>

[HTML]30 3 * * 0 /root/scripts/backmeup.sh >/dev/null 2>&1[/HTML]
<then>

[HTML]mkdir /var/2003serverbackups
mkdir /root/scripts
vi /root/scripts/backmeup.sh[/HTML]

<type in the following or similar and save it>

[HTML]#!/bin/bash

cp -R /mnt/2003server/ /var/2003serverbackups/[/HTML]

<finally make the .sh file executable>

[HTML]chmod +x /root/scripts/backmeup.sh[/HTML]

This should work for you.

If you want to check out rsync'ing the data, then follow this link - it saved my hide when my PDC crashed in the middle of the day, in the middle of the workweek! I had everyone up and working on my Linux archive server within 30 minutes...:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=544559

Good luck,

Deion "Mule" Christopher

You could setup a free Backup Server
 

AdminsParadise has a free Backup Server iso.

Pop it into a server with plenty of disk space and it will automatically configure and install a backup server (Backuppc)

With this you can backup your enterprise.

Works with Linux, Freenix, Solaris, Win95, Win98, Win2000 and WinXP

It has a nice gui interface, and a great compression and pooling scheme..Identical files are only stored once..

Example 95 labtops each with a 3.6GB (average) take only 150GB to backup..

later