Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:37:46 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: Jeff Jirsa <jeff@unixconsults.com> Cc: "P. U. Kruppa" <520023893678-0001@t-online.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: back up Win2k workstations? Message-ID: <3E30529A.4090807@acm.org> References: <20030122205056.E11768-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu>
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> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, P. U. Kruppa wrote: >>I am looking for a concept to back up some Win2k workstations on >>a FreeBSD machine. Can this be done and how? The approach I use here is to set up Samba on FreeBSD and run Microsoft Backup on Windows to backup to a file on the server. Other Windows backup programs (e.g., Dantz Retrospect) can also write to files on a Samba server. A couple of caveats: * Use a recent version of Samba. Prior to 2.0.8, Samba did not support files >4GB, and some later versions got very slow with large files. I'm playing with the beta of 3.0 which is very fast with large files. * Microsoft Backup does no compression. You can either use very large hard disks on your server (which is what I'm doing now) or periodically run a script on the server to gzip the backup files. * You should probably tune the disk for large files; read 'man newfs' for details. Using this setup with 100Mbps Ethernet, I can backup a Windows workstation with 60GB of data in about 3 1/2 hours over the network, resulting in a single 60GB file on the server. Fortunately, not all of my Windows machines are this large. ;-) Tim Kientzle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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