> > On 13/04/10 20:10, Mark Coolen wrote: > > Thanks for the ideas. I can't run the bacula client on the server, so > > I'm forced to do things this way (I know it isn't, and that's a huge > > understatement, the right way to do it). > > Yeah, yer not kidding. For one thing, there's no way to use the volume > shadow copy service over a cifs mount from a *nix box, so you won't be > able to back up files that're open on the Windows box by a local app or > one using a file remotely over smb/cifs. You also won't be able to get > consistent copies of files that're written to at the time of backup. > > You really can't get *any* saner backup option than this?
The OP seems to be using an actual Windows server so this may not be relevant, but there are stacks of SMB appliances (that may run Windows or not) that are closed wrt putting additional software on them, and the only way to get the data on or off is via SMB. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
