On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Chris Karakas wrote:
>I've been trying for 6 months now to get the Windows partitions on the
>backup server to be backed up correctly while running Linux and AMANDA.
>I first tried it as follows: I told AMANDA to backup the SAMBA shares
>that a SAMBA server made available on the backup server. The SAMBA
>server got those shares from as mounted vfat partitions. This is where
>SAMBA came into play. It did not work - incrementals were almost as big
>as full backups. Then I said myself "why have this SAMBA stuff at all?
>Just mount the vfat partitions and tell AMANDA to use tar and backup the
>mount point directory". This did not work either for the same reason. I
>am still looking for a solution.
My amamda server is an Intel box which dual-boots NT and Linux Red hat
6.2.
/dev/hda1 is the NT C: boot partition
/dev/hda5 is the NT D: extended partition
However, I have the mounted RO on the linux side because I often use
them with VMWare from Linux, effectively multi-booting my box. ;)
Mounted RO, Gnu tar sees them as /mnt/doscb and /mnt/dosdb. I could
have accessed them via samba instead, since my VMWare appears to my
Linux personality as a completely separate system with its own Hostname
and IP Address. I played with this and it does work, but I don't use
it because I rarely leave VMWare running for long periods of time. (It
consumes half my ram and degrades my native Linux JBuilder application,
which also consumes half my ram. Running them both causes my machine to
start swapping heavily, and since I spend most of my time doing Java
development, I launch VMWare only when I need to do excel stuff.)
You could try a VMWare-hosted smbtar backup.
--
Joi Ellis
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.visi.com/~gyles19/
