I'm in the process of setting up a backup server, that will mount the root shares on my other linux boxes, use mirrodir to mirror / and then unmount the partition again. I was planning on using samba and smb mount (I also have a couple windows boxes that would need to be mirrored).
My plan was to run samba on the boxes to be mirrored, and the use smbmount from the backup server to mount the partition, backup the data, and then unmount the partition again, move onto the next box and repeat until all of them are mirrored.
I'm not too comfortable with this though since I would have to mount the partitions as root, and then keep my root password in a clear text file on the machine thats using smbmount, such that it could mount the shares without keyboard input (using credentials option for smbmount). Obviously I dont want to keep any passwords in clear text files. So....
Whats a better solution to make this work with a mixed nix and windows enviornment?
thanx
My plan was to run samba on the boxes to be mirrored, and the use smbmount from the backup server to mount the partition, backup the data, and then unmount the partition again, move onto the next box and repeat until all of them are mirrored.
I'm not too comfortable with this though since I would have to mount the partitions as root, and then keep my root password in a clear text file on the machine thats using smbmount, such that it could mount the shares without keyboard input (using credentials option for smbmount). Obviously I dont want to keep any passwords in clear text files. So....
Whats a better solution to make this work with a mixed nix and windows enviornment?
thanx
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