Backing Up Data With Samba

Overview and Warning

Once you have configured your laptop to operate on the CSLab network, you should take advantage of the CSLab Samba server to mount your home directory in order save your important data files. In fact, we urge you to do so in order to avoid data loss. Consider the ramifications of losing your laptop or its hard-drive failing: How will you recover your thesis, research project or other vital data? If your answer is that it would be very difficult or impossible, then please take the time to learn how to save your work to our centralized file servers via Samba. Not only do we backup up our file servers continually, we back them up to tapes that are securely stored in a different building. This means that we will always be able to restore lost data for you. However, we can only backup what you have saved in your home directory! So please learn how to use Samba.

Mapping Home Directory via Samba

In order to use configure your laptop to use Samba, please select the appropriate link.

  • Windows 2000
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • MAC OS X (includes section on known MAC Tiger SMB problem)
  • Linux