Instant backups with smbmount and grsync

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 1, 2007 12:38 PM EDT
Linux.com; By Dmitri Popov
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Need a simple yet effective way to back up your laptop or desktop machine to a network-attached storage device or a network hard disk running Samba? Using Samba's smbmount utility and the grsync backup tool, you can set up a backup system that is both reliable and straightforward in use. And since both programs are available as packages for most Linux distributions, you don't have to get your hands dirty compiling from source code and fiddling with settings.

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