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Posted on: July 10th, 2009 by Famous Phil

As you probably know by now, I have a Microsoft Exchange 2007 server.  With any kind of server, a backup and disaster recovery plan is a vital part of any kind of professional hosting.  Hosting email can be quite tricky as it is, but taking network backups was a new road that I’ve never covered in Windows.

First, I have a fairly simple environment set up for my backup.  I have a Linux backup server running samba sitting in Seattle (mthsweb2).  This server has the Windows IP white listed so that only my Windows server can connect to it to map a network share.  For those of you who don’t know what samba is, samba is a daemon in Linux that will allow Windows to naively connect to a Linux server for file sharing.  Samba is a very simple solution for mapping a network drive to Linux in Windows without needing any specialized software such as sftpdrive (not called something else).

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