Discuss Digest, Vol 23, Issue 11

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> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:42:24 -0400
> From: Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: Re: NAS devices, SSH access, and secure backups
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> On 09/14/2009 09:46 AM, markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> The "Securely backing up Linux machines to NAS?" discussion got me
>> thinking...
>>
>> I have a DLINK-321 NAS device (From Microcenter, of course). The cool
>> thing about this unit is the fact that the standard firmware is Linux
>> and
>> it looks for a script file called "fun_plug" on the mounted volume at
>> startup. This is so vendors can customize the units operation. Well....
>> There is a fairly good set of Linux utilities that can be installed on
>> your disk that provide things like sshd, rsync, samba, etc.
>>
>> I have been running this for a couple months and it seems pretty stable.
>> The best part is that is does not change the firmware, it merely gets
>> executed at startup, so it is fairly safe. I bet that most of the units
>> out there are fairly similar.
>>
>> So, as per the previous discussion....
>>
>> If you install the "fun_plug" utilities, you can rsync, through ssh, (or
>> just scp) your backup into a directory on the NAS without ever making
>> the
>> backed-up directory exposed through samba.
>>
> Can you install rsnaphot. Since I first heard about rsnapshot here, I've
> been using it on my home system and on our WD MyBook. The biggest
> advantage of rsnapshot is that it is configured through a standard
> config file, and it uses rsync. Multiple backups effectively provide
> incremental backup by using hard links, so that files in the daily.0 and
> daily.1 directory that did not change are simply hard linked. It uses
> the rsync --link-dest command to do this.
>

Well, I'm not sure. I don't know too much about it. If it is a perl or
python script around rsync, then probably. If it is a properly compiled
binary, then you'd need to get a cross-compiler for the NAS box that runs
on your system.

Take a look here:
http://wiki.dns323.info/

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