Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide, The

Chapter 27. Backup Techniques

Features and Benefits

The Samba project is over ten years old. During the early history of Samba, UNIX administrators were its key implementors. UNIX administrators will use UNIX system tools to backup UNIX system files. Over the past four years, an increasing number of Microsoft network administators have taken an interest in Samba. This is reflected in the questions about backup in general on the Samba mailing lists.

Discussion of Backup Solutions

During discussions at a Microsoft Windows training course, one of the pro-UNIX delegates stunned the class when he pointed out that Windows NT4 is so limiting compared with UNIX. He likened UNIX to a mechano set that has an unlimited number of tools that are simple, efficient, ...