Hi Micheal, qvindesland Thanks for your replies. I would like to refrain from some other backup tool as much as possible as I have a number of other servers which I am backing up with ntbackup.
I should explain some things more clearly. 1. The samba share was a windows file share before. I migrated the share only to the debian box. 2. I am only looking to backup the share data and not the server itself. That is done by some other means. 3. On Windows I used ntbackup to perform a normal backup once a week to a removable hard drive for the share only. The daily differential backups go to the same device and I maintain them in a seperate bkf. This only includes files that changed since my last normal backup. From my understanding this is because the archive attribute gets cleared on a normal backups. This saves me some space and time. Since I moved to the samba share I am unable to maintain this strategy as the archive attribute does not seem to work the same way. 4. For example, if I change the attribute (uncheck) and then change the file content, the attribute does not get checked (this works on windows ntfs). On samba, this does nothing to the checkbox. Also, I have noticed that once I change a file, the created, modified and accessed time stamps seem to change altogether. What options do I use to keep these consistent to windows behaviour. Thank you cent9ur wrote: > > Hi > > I have a Linux/XFS/Samba that Windows Domain users access through client > machines either by UNC or mapped drive. > > I am trying to work out a backup plan. I would like to use ntbackup to > achieve this with Normal (once) and Differential (daily) backups. > > However, when I run the normal backup the archive checkbox does not get > cleared so the differential backup backs up everything again. > > I have realized that "map archive" maps the archive to the owner x it in > Linux. So I have tried map archive = no. But when i run backup the > archive checkbox does not change. > > Please let me know if this is a possible solution and if there are any > other directives I need to make this work. > > Thanks > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ntbackup-and-samba-tf4716463.html#a13483780 Sent from the Samba - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
