Topic: Nightly USB Backup

[tad1214]

We are getting set up to have our new dell server be our DC/ and file server here, but we want to make sure we have a nightly full backup.
Right now we have 4 300GB drives in a raid 5 (hardware), and we have a 1 TB external usb drive setup (Go Microcenter!)
Is there a way I can have SME setup to do a full backup to the attached USB drive every night?

Thanks!
-=Tom Donnelly

P.s. from what I have been reading, there is no way to have a redundant authentication server (BDC basically) right? Even if it is 1 day behind and replicates it  self nightly that would be fine. I don't need redundant files, but the ability to still log in would be nice in the event of hardware failure.

[stephen noble]

http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_with_dar

This rpm has moved from being a contrib, to testing stage for inclusion in the base install.

questions to the bugtracker

[mmccarn]

P.s. from what I have been reading, there is no way to have a redundant authentication server (BDC basically) right? Even if it is 1 day behind and replicates it  self nightly that would be fine. I don't need redundant files, but the ability to still log in would be nice in the event of hardware failure.

Affa would let you do this.  You can backup multiple times per day; in the event of primary hardware failure you execute the affa --rise command to 'raise' the backup server to primary status.

http://wiki.contribs.org/Affa