[wplug] samba back over network

[Bill Moran]

Lance Tost wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Sal Mangiapane wrote:
> 
>>Samba can be difficult to backup because it allows filenames, etc that are
>>invalid on the underlying Linux filesystem.
> 
> What's an example of an invalid filename?  I have plenty of files in ext3 
> and jfs filesystems with spaces and punctuation, if that's what you mean.

I'm a little interested in this as well.  I have a number of samba installs
that use plain old "dump" for backup, and never had a problem (despite users
insistence on using the most ridiculous filenames!)

As an aside, I've also used rsync for multi-server backup ... I think it makes
a nicer (and less-bandwidth-intensive) solution than Amanda.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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