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RE: Network backup question
Authored by: greebly on May 18, '04 02:21:48PM

I think that all 3 meet your criteria, but rsync and rdiff-backup are going to be easier to use and understand.

The bottom line is that each of those needs access to the Volume at the console level. If that can be accomplished, then you're fine.

However, you're going to need the target volume to support full UNIX permissions and ownership compatibility. SMB unfortunately doesn't do this properly, mostly because SMB/CIFS doesn't account for it in the protocol properly (UNIX permissions, not Windows ones). AFS should probably foot the bill. NFS certainly does.

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