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Re: [Sheflug] NFS/FTPFS/LUFS
Thanks for your reply, Denis. And thanks to the group for not flaming
me as I think my questions were poorly formulated and I had conflated
two separate issues.
Firstly, there is backing up over a network and, of course, using rsync
is the way forward there.
A different problem is mounting file systems on other machines and I
think that NFS and Samba are the two best-documented approaches about.
I will, however, take a further look at LUFS but SHFS
(http://shfs.sourceforge.net/) has recently popped up which could also
be worth a gander.
Cheers
Bill
Denis Nikitin wrote:
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 15:51, Bill Best wrote:
I am looking at implementing network file sharing over at least two
Linux servers.
Not knowing a great deal about this, I don't know whether to go for NFS,
FTPFS or LUFS or even something else that I may have overlooked.
I will initially be backing up the contents of one server to a remotely
mounted filesystem but then eventually progressing to accessing remotely
mounted files.
The questions that I am considering so far are as follows:
i) can the system be installed using rpms?
ii) is any complex kernel-tweaking involved?
iii) how secure is the end result?
iv) how easy is it to use overall?
I'm sure that fellow Sheflug-ers would have some thoughts on this.
Cheers
Don't forget rsync. Really good option to consider if you need backup
filesystems onto remote machine. IMHO, it's also a good choice from a
security point of view as well - supports rsh and ssh as transport.
No additional kernel tweaking or special privileges to install.
Cheers,
Denis.
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