[ltp] Complete Backup (and restore)

[Ed Siegner]

Adam Southerland wrote:
> 

> 
> At the moment I have 1 question - might be simple...
> 
> NFS on Windows -> Is this just a network share? or is there something I need
> to do? I hear NFS all the time, but I don't actually know how it works or
> what it is (I know what it means but how is it different than FAT, NTFS,
> MINIX, etc?) -- I can setup another Linux Box but what would I gain with
> Linux NFS than MS NFS? MS is already ready to be worked on while I would
> have to Install Linux and fight to get my hardware figure out... (Something
> always fails - normally because I have it setup oddly...)
> 

Hi Adam,

Instead of me searching for the right words, how about considering Paul
Sheer's introduction to NFS (excuse the formatting) below. I think you
will find his book more than interesting (
http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz "). With the use of
"netfilters" (iptables, ipchains), NFS is fairly secure, plus the daemon
can be shutdown when not needed. As far as setting up another box for
Linux, that's your choice. I have only have 2 MS licenses (not by
choice) to experiment with and as you said, "Linux is the coolest and
you can find out what you are running and what is exposed...".  

Ed

Introduction to chapter 28:
"This chapter covers NFS, the file-sharing capabilities of UNIX, and
describes how to set
up directories shareable to other UNIX machines.
As soon as one thinks of high-speed Ethernet, the logical possibility of
sharing a
file system across a network comes to mind. MS-DOS, OS/2, Apple
Macintosh, and
Windows have their own file-sharing schemes (IPX, SMB etc.), and NFS is
the UNIX
equivalent.
Consider your hard drive with its 10,000 or so files. Ethernet is fast
enough that
you should be able to entirely use the hard drive of another machine,
transferring
needed data as network packets as required; or you should be able to
make a directory
tree visible to several computers. Doing this efficiently is a complex
task. NFS is a
standard, a protocol, and (on LINUX ) a software suite that accomplishes
this task in
an efficient manner. It is really easy to configure as well. Unlike some
other sharing
protocols, NFS merely shares files and does not facilitate printing or
messaging."


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