[plug] Back-up via SMB ?

[William Kenworthy]

I would only do this if permissions are not important - unix perms dont
map nicely onto smb.  Ive had corruption of files in the past - though
this was with a windows server some years back, and samba tripped a rare
bug in doze that wrote the contents of xls files to nulls.  Its also
inefficient compared to doing something like a tar via an an ssh pipe.

BillK



On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 18:09 +0800, Kai wrote:
> Hi guys and girls and those in between,
> 
> My webserver needs a clean reinstall, I have another machine ready to 
> copy all the files for use as an interim server until I've got my other 
> machine working again.
> 
> I'm currently doing this via smb, sharing a mountpoint on the current 
> server and mounting it on the backup server, then doing a recursive copy 
> (with flags set to keep file permissions) of all the files.
> 
> I mainly want to copy/back-up all my webserver data. Config files aren't 
> important because I only have a few services running and it won't take 
> long to get those working on the new machine.
> 
> This method is working but is there an easier, more practical way of 
> doing it or should I keep going with this ?
> 
> Cheers
> Kai
> 
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William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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