Re: Cross-platform backups via tar/dump/other?
From: davehinz@spamcop.net
Date: 04/13/03
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From: davehinz@spamcop.net Date: 13 Apr 2003 14:04:32 GMT
Someone who looks an awful lot like Scott Wegener <wegster@ncol.net> wrote:
> Here's the scenario-
> Linux SMP server running NFS and samba for filesharing and backups.
> Dual boot laptop running Gentoo/Linux and XP. (actually and RH7.3, but
> irrelevant here..)
Can you use Amanda on the Linux box, and then mount the XP stuff using
smbclient or something?
> Laptop is configured with XP on NTFS but all data is mounted from a vfat
> partition, allowing data sharing when booted into Linux.
If you can tolerate not backing up from Windoze directly and booting into
Linux to back it up, Amanda would handle everything without getting exotic.
If you want to leave the 'doze box in XP, you can probably have it share
it out & mount it from the backup server.
I think cygwin just confuses things in this situation; if you can boot into
Linux to back up your data, no problems; you might even be able to tell
'doze to reboot, let your boot manager handle bringing it back into Linux,
let it do the backups, and then go back to 'doze if you want to. Or, if
you find the Samba set of tools that (I think) can also let you mount the
Doze file system from Linux (backwards of how Samba usually is used, but I
think there's a way to do that), then maybe you could yank it that way.
In any case, the webpages for the Amanda backup application are probably
a great place to start. I'm sure someone is using it in the way you describe.
Hope this helps,
Dave Hinz
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