Has anyone here ever tried to rsync data on a Linux server to a backup server running Windows with several shared drives on the Windows Server?

If you have could you point me in the direction of some docs on this, my search is coming up empty.

Thanks,

This may be of no use, but from what I know from Linux would you not need to mount the shared partitions on the Linux hard drive. Also it may be a better idea for secure reasons that you backup to another hard drive in your server and then off site to another Linux machine. Keep all data on there correct filesystem (Ext2/3 ReiserFS etc). This is just for security reasons. Plus some Windows filesystems such as FAT16/32 do not allow for file permissions or encryption, wouldn't this affect your files? Of course unless you have NTFS, which does allow for encryption, file permissions and pass worded files.

Regards

DislexiK

I understand what you are getting at with security. We have a server that's internal only and it has about 1TB of hard drive space and also 4 tape drives and its a Windows Server. We do backups to the server for all our Windows Servers, and we would like to backup Linux Servers to it as well and were looking for the most efficient way to do it.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

I do not know much or even anything about rsync, but if its internal, thats a lot less of a security risk - I mean if its on a VLAN and all.

I do however think you could make a partition dedicated to the Linux machine - which I am sure you were going to do anyway. Not Windows based filesystem but Linux, such as ReiserFS. Then mount it across the VLAN - if you have a VLAN. Windows won't be a problem at all because as long at the hard drive is accessable Windows doesn't need to see it for it to be viable across the network, well at least I think not. If it does, then I saw a little patch where Windows will see RieserFS and Ext3, if needed I will look it up for you.

Regards

DislexiK