[plug] Backup Tape Programs

[Richard Sharpe]

At 04:40 PM 10/21/00 +0800, you wrote:
>> At 11:54 AM 10/21/00 +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
>> to back up, but perhaps overkill for a home site.
>>
>I ended up using taper.  It handled my scsi tape easily by just starting it
>with "taper -T scsi".
>Taper found the tape immediately and worked very easily.
>It has many nice features that let you select compression types (compress or
>gzip) and many other user preferances.
>
>I plan to use it to backup some of my smbmounts (windows boxes on my home (3
>node) network) after I read up on the methods in my Samba book.

Hmmm, Amanda uses smbclient, which has a tar mode in it. smbclient allows
you to go out and backup an SMB file system from a Windows box and send it
to stdout which you may be able to pipe into taper.

Unfortunately, neither smbmount nor smbclient understand extended
attributes, so any ACLs on the Windows NT file system are not backed up!


Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba