> I am trying to upgrade my home backup system. So, I was considering one of > those network router devices into which you can plug in USB external hard > drives so that they function as network drives. Now, I have 3 computers - 1 > with Vista, 1 OSX and linux and I wanted to backup all of them over the > network on the same external drive. > > (1) Can I use Samba in such a situation with a single ext3 FS on the external > drives ? > Yes. Do this on your linux machine. > > (2) Do I need to connect the external drive to a linux box on which I run > Samba ? Yes >Or is it possible to do some kind of firmware install of Samba on the external >drive itself (I did read somewhere that there are some ethernet drives >available with Samba installed as firmware). That way I can plug in my >external drives directly into the router. > Unless you are a linux expert I would not attempt this.
> > (3) Finally, do I have to install some versions of Samba on both the Vista > and the OSX computers > so that they can see the Samba exported external network drive ? If so, are > there binaries available for OSX & Vista or do I have to do a cygwin install ? > You never install samba on windows machines. But the OSX machine you will probably need samba. With all of that said why not use a network backup solution like bacula or amanda? John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
