derrickfogle Posted April 1, 2002 Report Share Posted April 1, 2002 Is anyone successfully backing up locally mounted SAMBA shares under OSX? I haven't actually tried it yet, just theorized it should work. Basically, all my Linux servers .tar up everything that needs backed up to a specific directory. Right now those files get copied to Windows systems and Retrospect backs them up as clients. What I want to do is make SAMBA shares of those specific directories and mount them directly in OSX, where Retrospect can back them up directly. Any experience or advice out there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derrickfogle Posted April 4, 2002 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2002 Finally got a chance to try this. It basically doesn't work. Mounting the volume is fine, blah blah (RH 7.2 on dual pentium 800 w/512mb RAM and RAID level5 drive array running almost nothing but Communigate Mail Server and SAMBA). But a finder copy of the 1.71Gb worth of .tar files takes almost 3 hours (that's SLOW). A Retrospect backup script was still chewing on the files after almost 9 hours, and was only about 1/2 of the way through copying. It eventually died. So, it's a nice idea, and it kinda sorta acts like it will work, but it doesn't actually work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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