Re: Help backing up to networked drive
Mike Loiterman wrote: [ ... ] This is working fine, but I have to run the script mannually and enter the password. So my question are these: 1. Is there any other way of doing this so that I would not have to deal with the password issue from ssh? This is all taking place behind a secure firewall on my local network, so ssh is probably not necessary. You can use ssh-keygen to generate a RSA or DSA keyapir without a passphrase; copy that to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the other machine, and you can ssh without entering a password. 2. How can I use samba to mount the Mini's drive? mount_smbfs would only see the home share belonging to the user I was logging in with and not the /Volume directory on the Mac. Sym-links from the users /home to /Volumes didn't work correctly. How can I access the drives in /Volumes via samba? You either have to configure Samba to explicitly list the path under /Volumes as a share, or you have to enable the option to follow symlinks outside the share which contains your symlink -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Help backing up to networked drive
Mike Loiterman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to backup my server to a firewire drive connected to a Macintosh Mini. Both machines are on my local network and, of course, behind a secure firewall. Right now I'm using this script to take backups: #!/bin/sh /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - / | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/Volumes/Server-Backup/dump-root.gz \ /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - /tmp | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/Volumes/Server-Backup/dump-tmp.gz \ /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - /usr | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/Volumes/Server-Backup/dump-usr.gz \ /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - /var | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/Volumes/Server-Backup/dump-var.gz This is working fine, but I have to run the script mannually and enter the password. So my question are these: 1. Is there any other way of doing this so that I would not have to deal with the password issue from ssh? This is all taking place behind a secure firewall on my local network, so ssh is probably not necessary. 2. How can I use samba to mount the Mini's drive? mount_smbfs would only see the home share belonging to the user I was logging in with and not the /Volume directory on the Mac. Sym-links from the users /home to /Volumes didn't work correctly. How can I access the drives in /Volumes via samba? Actually, I take it back. The original script doesn't work. dd gives an error when I try to backup /usr saying that the file is too large...it dies at 4GB. -- Mike Loiterman grantADLER Tel: 630-302-4944 Fax: 773-442-0992 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: 0xD1B9D18E ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Help backing up to networked drive
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Loiterman Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:17 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Help backing up to networked drive Mike Loiterman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to backup my server to a firewire drive connected to a Macintosh Mini. Both machines are on my local network and, of course, behind a secure firewall. Right now I'm using this script to take backups: #!/bin/sh /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - / | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/Volumes/Server-Backup/dump-root.gz \ /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - /tmp | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/Volumes/Server-Backup/dump-tmp.gz \ /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - /usr | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/Volumes/Server-Backup/dump-usr.gz \ /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - /var | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/Volumes/Server-Backup/dump-var.gz This is working fine, but I have to run the script mannually and enter the password. Actually, I take it back. The original script doesn't work. dd gives an error when I try to backup /usr saying that the file is too large...it dies at 4GB. Not knowing anything about the mac mini, I can only guess: Have you tried using a partition name for dd of= instead of a file name? -gayn Bristol Systems Inc. 714/532-6776 www.bristolsystems.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Help backing up to networked drive
For those that are interested this is how got things to work: On the Mac Mini I edited /etc/smb.conf and put in this: [backup] path = /Volumes/Server-Backup writeable = yes Then I restarted Windows File Sharing by going to System Preferences-Sharing and then turning off Windows File Sharing and then turning it back on. Then, on my server, I mounted the Mini's drive with this command: /usr/sbin/mount_smbfs //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/backup /mnt/backup Now I'm using this script to do a level 0 dump: /sbin/dump 0aufL - / | bzip2 /mnt/backup/root-dump-l0.bz2 /sbin/dump 0aufL - /tmp | bzip2 /mnt/backup/tmp-dump-l0.bz2 /sbin/dump 0aufL - /usr | bzip2 /mnt/backup/usr-dump-l0.bz2 /sbin/dump 0aufL - /var | bzip2 /mnt/backup/var-dump-l0.bz2 Once I see that this is working well, I'll probably set up folders for a weekly level 0 and dailys level 9's. Thanks to Chuck for the hint on adding the drive in the Mini's smb.conf file. -- Mike Loiterman grantADLER Tel: 630-302-4944 Fax: 773-442-0992 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: 0xD1B9D18E ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
