[ALUG] Backup solutions for "not very linux" server destinations

[Chris G]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:45:02PM +0000, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 21/11/2007, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 
> > My Network Drive is a Samba server which, among other things, does not
> > support "unix extensions".  I have to disable the unix extensions for
> > the drive to be mountable at all by doing:-
> >
> >     echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled
> 
> I was just wondering, can you put NFS on the samba server and then do
> a normal rsync/etc. ? I know you said the machine is an old thing with
> cut down Linux and old samba. I read recently there was a buffer
> overflow vulnerability on samba, and so what would be your plans for
> security updates for this server? If you were going to do a security
> update, you might be inclined to think about putting on NFS on there
> and have 'proper' *nix file support anyway.
> 
It's not old in the sense that it's an old Linux box (of mine) running
as a server.  It's a brand new box which is a NAS system that happens
to run a cut down Linux and Samba to provide network file storage.  So
it's not accessible in any way to change its setup.

The command above is what I have to do at the *client* end so that the
CIFS mount works given the limitations of the NAS.

-- 
Chris Green