Re: Cross-platform backups via tar/dump/other?

From: davehinz@spamcop.net
Date: 04/14/03

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    From: davehinz@spamcop.net
Date: 14 Apr 2003 02:39:12 GMT

    Someone who looks an awful lot like Scott Wegener <wegster@ncol.net> wrote:

    > Hi Dave- thanks for the response. I guess I was looking for more of a
    > client-based solution, as the laptop generally goes everywhere instead
    > of being a static system on the network. smbclient is a good idea
    > though- although with the limitation of needing to run samba (or nfs and
    > a conditional server side script) on the laptop, something I tend to try
    > to avoid (extra services).

    Well, the folks at the Amanda project have probably dealt with just this,
    I don't know offhand how. When I had laptop backups as part of my
    domain, I insisted that people who had important stuff would copy it off
    to a mapped network drive (Samba share) to get it backed up - compliance
    was low, of course.

    > I've got a feeling that you may be right on just letting the backups
    > happen from booting into Linux- although not ideal (rebooting at times
    > to kick off a backup ) it may be a simpler solution without jumping
    > through too many hoops.

    It's either "elegant" or "scary", depending. If you can get 'doze to behave
    nicely with scheduled reboots, and just let your boot loader default to Linux,
    then after the backup, you can have Linux reboot, tell the boot loader to go
    back into 'doze, and you're set. Might take some creativity (messing
    with rc scripts or something maybe?), but could be interesting.

    If nothing else, won't hurt the 'doze boxes to be rebooted nightly anyway.
    (I know that sounds kind of snarky, but it *is* true, after all).

    Dave Hinz

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