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

Hi

On 21/11/2007, Chris G cl@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.

That reminds me, I should setup NFS tonight :)

Surge