[olug] Backup of Windows workstation(s) to Linux server...

[Matthew G. Marsh]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Daniel G. Linder wrote:

> OBrien, Timothy (Omaha Linux Users Group - OLUG) wrote:
> > I suggest you find a used tape backup, like from the one of
> > the vendors at the upcoming computer fair, Electronic
> > Recyclers, or one of the small PC stores in town. Hell, I
> > might have an extra laying around for ya!
>
> I'll have to stop in at the fair and see what I can find.  I was into
> the searching on-line for new I forgot the local used/reconditioned
> market...
>
> > Have you also considered backing up to CD or DVD media?
>
> I gave it a little thought, but not much more.  My initial idea was to
> use Amanda (http://www.amanda.org/) to do the backup, and I'd just
> rotate tapes each morning...  I didn't see where Amanda would use CD-RW
> for the backup, plus I'd have to rotate 10+ CDs in to do the full backup
> of the 6GB of data... :(

Check out Rsync - there is a version that runs on XP and it makes backups
simple - tar the local storage.

http://rsync.samba.org

> On the plus side, I am going the other route -- setting up Samba to
> share a 10GB HDD and mounting it as the Z: drive on my wife's machine.
> Then I will have XP kick off a nightly backup over the network.
>
> This leads directly to my next question... :) Thanks Timothy!
>
> There was some discussion lately about tweaking NFS parameters to
> improve performance.  Does anyone have any tweaks they want to share in
> a Samba/Windows environment?  Just FYI, my un-tweaked Samba server was
> able to sustain 1.7MByte/sec over the full backup.  Not bad, but well
> below the theoretical achievable 5+MByte/sec that the network should be
> able to pump through...  (Yeah, I'm a speed freak when it comes to my
> servers!)
>
> Dan
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