[Klug-general] Hesitant steps with samba

[Karl Lattimer]

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 09:46 +0100, Michael E. Rentell wrote: 
> With all the recent advice rendered by KLUGers I have managed to 
> reinstate my simple home network using samba and I can see my backup 
> directories on my old machine when using konqueror. I just put:
> 
> smb://micks-desktop-old/backups
> 
> into the search address of konqueror and there they are. Fine - thanks 
> to all for suggestions. That worked.
> 
> I want this facility in order to do a backup of my complete /home/mick 
> directory to that directory using the samba connection. I've succeeded 
> using a simple drag and drop for the first complete backup but that took 
> 4 hours - even at 6 Mbps (lots of data).
> 
> Now I want to do what I used to be able to do with NFS which is use 
> grsync (or any similar tool) to copy over my /home/mick files but if the 
> file has not changed, then ignore it. That way I used to be able to do 
> it in under an hour.
> 
> However, grsync isn't able to understand the 
> smb://micks-desktop-old/backups in the target box. That's a bit 
> disappointing considering that konqueror can do it fine.
> 
> Can anyone help with a suggestion for a different backup program or just 
> a simple cli script which will do this simple backup.

mount the samba share, then it'll work with grsync

mount -t cifs //micks-desktop-old/backups /backup -o
username=bleh,password=bloo

BR,
K