Topic: Windows graphical tool to manage dar files

[lucho115]

Anybody knows any Windows graphical tool to manage dar files??? because my clients are windows manchines and when an user want to look for a file that is in a back up is a mess, no posible to any windows user to use the dar commansd line tools , is too much for them.
thks

[dmay]

None that I know of.

Darrell

[lucho115]

OK, so iam going to do 2 backups :
1 to complete sytem with smeserver-dar2
and
1 to user folders with backup2.
Its take me double work and double space but is the only solution.
tnks

[imcintyre]

I know that I have mentioned this software before and I don't own any shares or have any interest, but I back up my Samba shares at work with something called Syncback from 2brightsparks.

It is a free download for noncommercials, it backs up the shares over the network to a Windows machines, have different passwords to get into ibays and I've even done differential backups from home over the internet through VPN.

It's not exactly a recycle bin but it is right up there. It has helped out many times when somebody discovers that they need an old revision or some other screw up. Oh I don't use compression so someone can just check the stored file and copy it back to where they need it.

[lucho115]

OK, thanks , but this soft not to resolve my problem, because i have 200 pcs in my job, so implement this soft will be a mess, i need samething running on server side.
The same dmay said that there isnt a soft like winrar to windows xp to descompress DAR so, like i said before, iam going to use DAR and RAR instead.
thanks,

[imcintyre]

I run it off a pc that is always in the office and always on and back up the server to usb disks, rotate the disks so I have last nights and two days ago with me and one at home. However, retrieving files is going to be a full time job with 200 users.

I also looked at your posts regarding recycle bin. Did you get anywhere with this? I can enable the recycle box but the permissions are messed up. Are the permissions easy to change?

[lucho115]

I also looked at your posts regarding recycle bin. Did you get anywhere with this? I can enable the recycle box but the permissions are messed up. Are the permissions easy to change?

Yes iam using it, and work OK, i dont know what are your problem with permissions, but its a good safe mode of deleting on ext3 filesystem (because its practical imposible recover the deleted files/folders under ext3)

[Dirk]

Did you know you can open dar files with the midnight commander as a virtual file system!Give them putty and shell access  

[lucho115]

Did you know you can open dar files with the midnight commander as a virtual file system!Give them putty and shell access

NO, i dont know, but iam trying to do that you say and i am not able to doit,
can you tell me how to doit??
tks

[dmay]

Here are some basic rpm commands that are always helpful in determing an rpms general info, changelog and files installed:

# rpm -ql --info --changelog smeserver-dar2 | more

* Sun Jan 07 2007 Darrell May <dmay@myezserver.com>
- added dar2-mc action
- added dar support files for Midnight Commander
- [0.0.1-1dmay]

Then check out:

# /etc/e-smith/events/actions/dar2-mc

Darrell

[lucho115]

OK, i doit but idont knows how it works? i run the script and askme info about my backup job (its add a new backup or it need info of one of the backup jobs?) i enter the info of my exist backup job and give an error :

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Connecting /mnt/dar2/compridc1 to //10.0.0.3/backup-dc1
8551: session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)
SMB connection failed
Error locating /*my server full name*/compridc1 dir

so, can anybody tellme how it works?
thanks

[jpl]

If your problem is to get an interface to navigate through backuped files in your dar backups, and possibly interactively restore some of them, you could also look to e-smith-backup with dar, which provides such functionality in the server manager.

[lucho115]

If your problem is to get an interface to navigate through backuped files in your dar backups, and possibly interactively restore some of them, you could also look to e-smith-backup with dar, which provides such functionality in the server manager.

e-smith-backup with dar? another contrib, but still beta, and iam on a production server so i cant play with it.
tks

[Tib]

e-smith-backup with dar? another contrib, but still beta, and iam on a production server so i cant play with it.
tks

I run this on a production server ... have been since it first came out and all works fine.

Only hassel is when there are major SME updates JPL has to update his contrib to fix interface.

I just don't upgrade the server till the interface is fixed ... few days later.

Backups and restoring is very easy with this setup and the fact that you can do incremental backups.

Regards,

Tib