Backing up Samba

Hi all!

We will have to backup a couple of file servers,
located in remote offices. These servers run linux
and serve files to XP Clients using samba.

I am planning to do this with a NetApp NearStore R150
and their SnapVault software. The network from remote
to central offices is weak and their incremental
snapshot feature looks promising.

As an added benefit, I am thinking of sharing out
the backups on the r150 via CIFS, so that a client
can mount the backup directly if it's dedicated samba
server crashes.

Is this possible? If yes, what about share names,
permissions,user and group info and acls?

I think, that since Snapvault is backing up from an
Linux filessystem, we will have only UNIX style file
metadata on the R150. Normally, I would get the CIFS
info from an PDC or an AD-server. if we rebuild this
infrastructure with open ldap and kerberos (we might
have to this anyhow), could the r150 use it?
Has somebody done something like this before?

Thanks and regards,
uwe

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Regards,
Luan


Uwe Weber wrote in message ...
Hi all!

We will have to backup a couple of file servers,
located in remote offices. These servers run linux
and serve files to XP Clients using samba.

I am planning to do this with a NetApp NearStore R150
and their SnapVault software. The network from remote
to central offices is weak and their incremental
snapshot feature looks promising.

As an added benefit, I am thinking of sharing out
the backups on the r150 via CIFS, so that a client
can mount the backup directly if it's dedicated samba
server crashes.

Is this possible? If yes, what about share names,
permissions,user and group info and acls?

I think, that since Snapvault is backing up from an
Linux filessystem, we will have only UNIX style file
metadata on the R150. Normally, I would get the CIFS
info from an PDC or an AD-server. if we rebuild this
infrastructure with open ldap and kerberos (we might
have to this anyhow), could the r150 use it?
Has somebody done something like this before?

Thanks and regards,
uwe