"Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> One way I have done it is to use MS's backup program to backup to a >> samba share on a freebsd box. MS backup will happily backup to a samba >> share. Then I just backup all that stuff using amanda. > >beware of backing up via NT Backup to a samba share, always verify the >contents of the file. I ran into a problem wher it appeared to be backing up >just fine, and created a huge BKF file, but it was full of zeros and >unusable...
I've been using ntbackup to files on samba share for a number of weeks now, haven't seen any problems. I do have the verify flag on. Perhaps it's the samba version or config, or maybe networking issues? Just a thought. I did have to alter my original schedule/dump type in ntbackup. I was getting tape overruns due to that fact that amanda has no control of the w2k boxes schedule/dump type. It would be very cool if some smart win programmer could write wrappers for ntbackup.exe so that amanda could control it directly. Also, I copy over the ntbackup log files at the end of the script. Seems it can only have 10 log files at a time. Ntbackup in w2k is pretty useful. Although Veritas did write it for them. -- toby bluhm philips medical systems, it support, mr development, cleveland ohio [EMAIL PROTECTED] 440-483-5323
