Charles N Wyble Journal

Yesterday I did a good amount of work regarding backups:

1) Provisioned 100G of storage on my file server.
2) Setup samba shares for all the server systems which will be backed up (vmware and bare metal)
3) Ran a backup in my test environment.

Rsync complained about not being able to preserver permissions. This is due to the target directory being a samba share most likely.

Looks like I need to use

-vaPx --numeric-ids

instead of -vax.

I found that at: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-November/113800.html

So I will make that change and test it then roll out the script to all my linux vmware servers later today.

I will then need to implement something for Windows clients (probably using Unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) and customize the excludes file for Patti and my laptop.

I will post again when I have made progress against those items.