[TriLUG] Mirroring solutions for Samba shares?

[Jean Quintus]

Windows 2000 resource kit has a command line tool called robocopy.exe. It
has a ton of switches that enable mirroring, exclusions, and various other
options.  I use it at home via the windows scheduler to mirror 80gb drives
(including mp3's) betweeen computers.  Never had a problem.  If you don't
have access to the resource kit I can email it to you.

Don't know anything about the linux side of it as I've just recently made it
passed the install stage.

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf Of
bp
Sent: 02 January, 2003 12:10 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: [TriLUG] Mirroring solutions for Samba shares?


Well if anyone followed my earlier emails about '\rm -fr'ing 4gb 
unintentionally you'll understand why this question came about.

I'm looking to accurately mirror a Windows files system on to my Red Hat 
server as a means of redundancy. In the past I've seen Windows share 
copying as unreliable since several mp3s always seem to get munched in 
the transfer. This makes me apprehensive about scripting my own smbmount 
kind of solution. I can't afford a tape or hardware solution for a 20GB 
backup. But I do have plenty of disk on both sides.

Are their any recommended mirroring programs for this type of 
application? Ways to make samba transfer more accurate?

Thanks,
bp


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