Re: Confused over CIFS

Preston Kutzner wrote:
On Jan 15, 2009, at 12:18 AM, Ted Hilts wrote:

Now, when it comes to real backup operations that's another kettle of
fish that I have to work on. I don't know if the "Ubuntu" central
repository or archive can co-exist with normal types of backup
operations such as those that "backuppc" would engage in. If it cannot
then it simply gets left out of the overall backup scheme and is
separately handled. This backup scheme I want to set up (this other
kettle of fish) has to backup all machines both Windows and Linux
machines so they can be easily and quikly restored on the same disk or
on a new disk or on a bigger disk. So far I have one concern when using
"dd" to build an image of a partition or of a whole disk. Will it work
the same on Windows machines as it does on Linux machines and also I
read somewhere that "dd" won't automatically rebuild partitions when
doing a restore. Maybe I misunderstood what I was reading but it seemed
that the idea was when restoring a disk to first manually build the
partitions and file system and then using "dd" apply the data in the
file created by "dd" for restoration. So I am really confused on this
issue.

With regards to dd, there is a port available for Windows. Again,
'dd' does a
bit-for-bit copy of what is on a drive. So, yes, partitions will be
restored, etc.
What you were probably referring to is that it only really works to
restore to a drive that is the same size and geometry. So, maybe not
your best option unless you have some spare drives that are the same
as the ones you have in that box.

I would suggest researching options as far as software backup
solutions go. If you're just looking to gather your files in to
compressed packages, then dumping them off to other media
(CD/DVD/External HDD, etc.) you might be able to get away with tar and
gzip or bzip2. I assume most of your news files are just text, so you
should be able to get pretty good compression on them. You wouldn't
be able to do a bare-metal restore with them, but at least the data
would be backed-up.


Thanks, Ted


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Preston:

Thanks very much for your ideas, references, and solutions. I'll have to
do some downloading and other things. Once I've made some progress I'll
let you know. BTW, I don't mind restoring a disk onto a larger one
because I can use the extra space with a data partition and/or try out
things for which I currently don't have enough disk space. One thing
that would be neat would be to have a place on the LAN for just ISO
images for both live distributions as well as a normal install. I have
a Centos 5.2 (DVD from a recent Linux magazine) but it is an install
disk and I have no place to install it to try it. It is supposed to be
very close to a full Red Hat system (Enterprise -- open and free part).
Thought it might be a good host for the generation of virtual machines
using Virtual Box. Thanks again -- Ted


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