Topic: Automating Backup to Desktop

[Mark Worley]

Hi,
I would like to be able to automate the "Backup to Desktop" function so that I can schedule a daily backup from my WinXP desktop. Is there any way to do this?
Thanks
Mark Worley

[Cyrus Bharda]

Mark,

Darrell May has made a neat little rpm that basically does what your asking for, do a search fro Backup2ws or goto here for more information:

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/mitel/contrib/Backup2ws/

Enjoy, I know I do

Cyrus Bharda

[Mark Worley]

Hi Cyrus,
Thanks for your help. The Backup2ws function allows you to backup selected directories. What I want to be able to do is to emulate the Backup to Desktop function so that all configuration info, user accounts, etc., are backed up.
Is there any way to do this with Backup2ws?
Thanks
Mark Worley

[rob Wellesley]

911 backup - you should test a restore though

[Cyrus Bharda]

Mark,

Well as rob mentions, Backup2ws does nearly exactly the same job as backup to desktop, the 911 job that is standard in Backup2ws will backup all config info, user accounts, root dir and if that is not enough then just simply setup another job to backup whatever is not covered in the 911 job.

Couldn't be easier , if you have any problems contact me offlist and I can do my best to help you out

Cyrus Bharda

[Joseph]

does this have that 2gig restore limitation that backup to desktop supposedly has?

[Cyrus Bharda]

Joseph,

Yes and No.

Yes, it does have the same limitation because it has to do with the samba file system limit, it has a limit of 2 GB, believe be do a search on 2 GB limit and you will find very lengthy disscussions on this.

No, it is not affected by this because you can set the size of the backup files in Backup2ws, for instance I have mine set to 645 MB just in case I want to put them on a cd sometime, so I get 5 x 645 MB files in my shared directory after the job is run.

Hope that helps

Cyrus Bharda

[Ray Mitchell]

In backup2ws you can set it to split at 2,000,000 which is just under the 2Gb problem size, and it will work fine,
See
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=6974.msg25295#msg25295
for further info.
do a search on backup2ws (all dates) and you will find a good number of posts about it.
Regards
Ray

[Dan Williams]

We are using the Backup2ws and have it set to do a custom job.
The part that we are having trouble with is that it we have told it to keep 2 days, but nothing appears to clean up the rars that are older than two days.
Anyone else find this?
Dan

[Cyrus Bharda]

Dan,

No I have mine set to 2 weeks, as I do backups weekly and just checked my shared directory and there is only 2 backups in it, all the rest have been cleaned, so it works for me.

Cyrus Bharda

[Dan Williams]

Hi,
Just double checked again, two seperate servers, both set to do daily backups of select I-Bays, told expiry 2 days, jobs are saved after creating/changing.
Both servers have an ongoing list of rars for every days backup.
Dan

[Ray Mitchell]

Which version rpm are you using, I see different sites have 14 ,15 and 16.
see contribs.org darrell may for the most recent
dmc-mitel-backup2ws-0.0.1-16.noarch.rpm

Ray

[Dan Williams]

Hi Ray,
It is 14.
I have un-installed it, and aquired 16.
I will see what happens, thank you.
Dan