Nicholas Hall wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am working on building a small distro for backing up Window's clients
> over WAN. My goal is to be able to hand a customer a small piece of
> hardware (i.e. http://www.soekris.com/products.htm), have them plug it
> in their network, open port 22 to the device be able to do some simple
> configuring via web interface to select which hosts and SMB shares to
> backup. The selected shares will be mounted on the device via smbmount
> which should allow BackupPC to SSH in to the device and effectively
> backup internal Win32 hosts.
>
> Before I commit anymore time into this I would like to see if anyone
> else is backuping up hosts in a similiar fashion (SMB mounts). I do not
> know the internals of Rsync on how it checks to see if a file has
> changed and I'm concerned that an SMB mount point won't allow rsync to
> do it's magic (incrimentals) and therefor won't allow BackupPC to do
> _it's_ magic (pooling, hardlinks).
>
> Someone please ease my nerves and tell me this will work.
Conceptually it should work. The issues you'll have to deal with will
be the smbmount credentials, especially if the site has a policy that
forces regular password changes, and the fact that rsync full runs will
read the entire filesystem contents over the smb mount although it will
only exchange block checksums to find the changes across the WAN side.
If I were installing something like this, I'd want at least an option to
add disks to the device to hold a current copy of the backups with an
additional copy and the history kept remotely via backuppc. Disks are
fairly cheap and it would give a quicker restore of the copy you are
most likely to want.
--
Les Mikesell
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