RE: re[2]: [rdiff-backup-users] Still thinking about windows

[Törrönen, Paul-Erik]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Freemyer [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 2003-03-12 18:40
> Subject: re[2]: [rdiff-backup-users] Still thinking about windows

> Thanks for the warnings.
> I think most of them were related to having NTFS as the 
> backup target, right?

Yes.

> I want to backup Win2K ms-sql servers to a Linux box (Suse) 
> running XFS as the FS.
> Do you think that should work smoothly?

Well I don't have experiense of running a rdiff-backup as a
server on a Windows-box, instead what we do is that we make
a scheduled dump in MS SQL to a shared directory readable
only by the backup-user, this is then smbmounted from a
Linux-box which runs the rdiff-backup on it as it was a
local directory. One thing to note if doing smb-mounted
backups is that some programs, if running, lock the used
files (eg. Outlook and .pst-files) in such a manner that
rdiff-backup is unable read the file.

Poltsi

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