Problem using rsync with NAS for ombackup

[Ruthiness]

Our setup has an Iomega NAS that does not support the "no-root-squash" option of the exported filesystem so the rsync in ombackup fails on setting the permissions.

Many people also feel that rsync is insecure to use in general.

Does anyone have a secure alternative for making backups of the Scalix server without being able to use rsync and set the permissions on the NAS copy of the backup?

What about rdist? Perhaps I can use ombackup to a local filesystem and then tar them over to the NAS to overcome this? We need the backups to be on the NAS because tape backups pick up the data from the NAS.

I've resorted to running the ombackup only once a week (since it shuts down the Scalix server and the client doesn't like that) and now use sxmboxexp nightly to backup user mailboxes. I'd like a good "ombackup" type solution for the server backups - if only we could use rsync to the NAS.. *sigh*

[mikevl]

Hi Ruthiness

You can backup to a tar file on the NAS this is better.
You will need to preserve file permissions.

What is the posibility of installing some "data disks" on the server that you could set up as LVM for use with snapshotting in mind. If you have under 100 users you could use inexpensive SATA in RAID 1. It is easy to transferr the data and mount the new drive to /var/opt/scalix

This would cure an increasing frustration.

Mike