data backup software for freebsd

Ralph M. Los Ralph at boundariez.com
Mon Sep 6 20:12:25 PDT 2004


  Sorry to throw this in - but does anyone have any experience with
commercial, Win32-based backup software backing up Samba shares on
FreeBSD?
  I have BackupExec running, on a tape library Win2k box, and I have my
file-server a FreeBSD 5.2.1 machine running Samba 2.2.8a.
  I'm still learning BSD so please bear with my possibly stupid
question... Why does the Win2k box always backup the full share, even
though I have differential backup selected?

Ralph


::-----Original Message-----
::From: mailing lists at MacTutor [mailto:lists at mactutor.biz] 
::Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 7:37 PM
::To: John Lee
::Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
::Subject: Re: data backup software for freebsd
::
::
::John,
::
::By the nature of your questions I'll respond that it would not be 
::unreasonable (nor uncommon) to do this:
::
::     tar czf /usr/local/archives/etc.tar.gz -C / etc usr/local/etc
::
::where 'c' means create, 'z' means compress (using gzip), and 
::'f' is the 
::name of the archive file to write on. '-C' means change to this 
::directory before performing the archive. 'etc usr/local/etc' are the 
::directories that are to be included in the archive.
::
::I prefer to date my archives in the filename and do this (I also like 
::long options):
::
::     tar --create --verbose --gzip --directory=/ \
::       --file=/usr/local/archives/etc-2004.09.06-archive.tgz \
::       etc > /usr/local/archives/etc-2004.09.06-archive.log
::
::     tar --create --verbose --gzip --directory=/ \
::       
::--file=/usr/local/archives/usr.local.etc-2004.09.06-archive.tgz \
::       usr/local/etc > \
::       /usr/local/archives/usr.local.etc-2004.09.06-archive.log
::
::I then diff the log files against the archives as a check.
::
::     tar tzf /usr/local/archives/etc-2004.09.06-archive.tgz | \
::       diff -s - /usr/local/archives/etc-2004.09.06-archive.log
::
::U can use scp (or some ftp agent) to shoot the archives and logs to 
::your ftp server as you wish.
::
::Also, consider doing the following:
::
::     man tar
::     man gzip
::     man diff
::
::Happy Tarring,
::Alex
::
::
::On Sep 6, 2004, at 6:39 PM, John Lee wrote:
::
::> hmm, are there any popular free data backup software
::> for freebsd?
::>
::> i hope to backup my /etc and important files to another server via 
::> ftp.
::>
::> --john.
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