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Re: [LUG] Debian and Cron jobs

 

Richard Brown wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I am running a Buffalo Terastation as the main server for a firm of
> architects. I backup to a usb disk every day and this is taken home in
> the evening. However, I would also like to run a backup to another
> server using cron but don't know how to do this. Can anybody point me
> in the right direction please?
> 
> The reason for running a second server is to run Lotus Organizer or
> something similar for the admin staff. Does anybody know whether it is
> possible to run organizer through Linux or is there a package that
> folks would recommend that we could migrate to please?

I think you'll find that Organiser doesn't really work well as a shared 
Calender.  Are you wanting to run the Lotus Organiser program on Linux 
or have a shared calender?

If it's a shared calender then you might want to have a look at 
something like eGroupware which is web based but would work on anything 
with an up to date web browser.

To backup the Terastation to a Linux PC I assume you would need to mount 
the network share (I guess it's standard Samba/Windows file sharing?) 
and then run a script with something like rsync to back it up.

I have done something similar myself although I haven't got a copy of 
the script to hand.  I know I certainly used rsync and mounted a remote 
samba share anyway.  Hopefully this will give you something to go on.

Rob


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