Backup SAMBA Shares

[dshayega]

Hello friends,

Is it possible to backup samba shares from an ArcServe 2000 backup server running under Windows 2000? One of our Linux servers has chrons that tar up data we want to have backed up. We don't have the the AS client agent for Linux, so I thought we might have the chrons put the tar files in a directory located under a samba share existing on one of the volumes (Win 2000) that is currently backed up by ArcServe. Has anyone tried this successfuly, both backing up and restoring? Any help is extremely appreciated.

Thanks,
Darius

 

[Guest_imported]

Not sure if that will work or not, but you can mount the win2k server share on the linux box and copy the file to the win2k server's hard drive. That way you know arcserve will back it up. This is the command that I use to mount my win2k server's share on my linux box at work: smbmount //servername/sharename /localmountpoint -o username=myusername,password=mypassword,ip=192.168.0.1 Good luck!

 

[dshayega]

Thanks skreien!

I will give it a go!

Darius

 

[BrianGlenn]

This should work without a problem, as it is the same protocol as windows machines use. You will have to make sure that the linux machine is announcing itself on the network, and has an entry in your domain if you are using one, otherwise it may not show up in the browse list in ArcServe (or in Windows for that matter).

The samba website has details on ensuring that these details are in place. I don't have any linux machines with samba at work to check this out.

Hope that helps...