Topic: mount and rsync to a XP box for backups

[pauljclarke]

Hi,

would like someone to tell me if this sounds ok before I start...

Have SME7.x box that I want to back up & a XPserver that back's up everything that is on itself.

plain is to mount (using cifs) the remote XP box, then run rsync to backup it's self to this now (well looks like) local mount.

I know I could run rsync.d on XP server, but think this may be nice and clean + the XP server is not mine to play with.!

Will this work, and will file permissions and hard / soft links survive the move to a ntfs file system?

Any comments welcome.

P 

[dmay]

No. Rsync SME to XP drops all SME/Linux ownership and file attributes. Not recommeded and hence why other contrib solutions exist.

Darrell

[pauljclarke]

Please can you suggest my best options.

Thanks

[raem]

pauljclarke

Please learn to search for and read the information on the wiki
Here are various backup options

http://wiki.contribs.org/Affa
http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_with_dar
http://wiki.contribs.org/DAR2

http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_Windows_Computers_Using_Affa
http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_server_config

and a search on BackupPC would find this
http://sme.firewall-services.com/downloads/smeserver-backuppc/howto/
http://sme.firewall-services.com/downloads/smeserver-backuppc/rpms/
Search the forums for quite a bit of additional info re BackupPC
eg
http://sme.firewall-services.com/spip.php?article3
and
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=32089.0

I have just added this to the wiki
http://wiki.contribs.org/BackupPC