[ale] Iptables: Temporarily mounting a windows share

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 13:33 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> My cleanest option for offloading backup tarballs from an 
> Internet-reachable server involves dropping the tarballs onto a nearby 
> Windows server that's already part of the backup rotation.  My iptables 
> rules preclude this at the moment.
> 
> Instead of modifying my iptables script to allow me to "mount -t 
> cifs..." from the server at any time, I'd prefer to have the backup 
> script make the minimum necessary iptables rules changes temporarily, 
> mount the windows share, write the tarballs to the mount point, unmount 
> the windows share, and change the iptables rules back like they were.   
> How might I invoke this in my backup script?
> 
> Jeff

Since it can all be done in a shell script, create a run-before.sh that
does the firewall opening, mounts the drive, run the backup, then use
the complimentary run-after.sh the unmounts the drive and the closes the
iptables hole.

A secondary idea is to use rsync/ ssh with keys and cygwin (for rsync
support) on the windows machine. Then do a local tape backup of the
tarball. This will let you work without opening the firewall up any more
than allowing ssh.

> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
-- 
James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./
http://www.localnetsolutions.com

GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part