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Title: Nightly USB Backup
Post by: tad1214 on November 13, 2007, 10:05:59 PM

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.

Title: Re: Nightly USB Backup
Post by: stephen noble on November 13, 2007, 10:57:34 PM

http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_with_dar

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

questions to the bugtracker

Title: Re: Nightly USB Backup
Post by: mmccarn on November 13, 2007, 11:39:50 PM

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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