Per Charlies suggestion I am moving this discussion to this forum.
Steve Hiner wrote:
> > I was wondering if it is possible to start the web interface
> > backup proceedure using a cron job.
> No, that's not possible, since the admin password is needed to access that web
page.
I didn't really mean using the actual web page. I was just thinking that the web page probably called a script on the server. If so I could start the script manually in a cron job. If there isn't a script then where would I find documentation of what is backed up? I assume it is really just a .tgz file so I could make my own backup manually by using tar. I just want to make sure I am backing up everything that needs to be backed up. Would I just need to back up /etc/e-smith, /home and perhaps /var/qmail?
I am considering having my users leave their email on the server so I can back it up since the server uses much better hardware than the clients. I figure the clients are much more likely to fail and I don't want the users to lose all their email, nor do I really want to back up every client separately.
> > Ideally I would like to
> > have the system create the backup file every night and copy it
> > to a samba share on my NT Server.
> It would be possible to do that, depending on access restrictions on the NT server. > But this discussion belongs in the Advanced Forum, since
> that would be a custom change.
> Charlie