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The server I want to backup is an NTFS file system.
Okay so here is the setup as best I know it. We have a unix terminal running Linux (I logged in and used the uname command to check) that is used as a data server. Users in the office, mostly on pcs but some on macs, can access the drive (through windows) by mapping a network drive under Tools in My Computer
At the level they're using it they say "OK server, give me <filename>" and the server goes "okay, here is <filename>". They don't use it at the filesystem level, and only care what it is because FAT won't let them create files >4GB while NTFS will.
It's almost certainly not actually NTFS.
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By doing, do you mean, what is it used for? If so, the department uses it to store research data.
I mean in more detail. What daemons are running to do what, using what files?
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To be quite honest I don't know much more beyond that, nor do I think does anyone else at this point.
Someone had to set this up at some point in time.
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So that would be simply plugging the drive into the server via USB, mounting (with code) and creating the tarball (more code)? How can I tell if my Linux server can understand XFS or not?
(don't get excited over the NTFS entry. Linux's built-in NTFS support is still poor and, by necessity, read-only. There's a better driver under development but it's external to the kernel so quite cumbersome to use right now.)
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The uname -a command gave more info, would that help?
Probably.
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How long approximately would that take?
I have no idea. How long it takes depends on how large it is and how fast your computer is and how fast your drive is.
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and vs. say doing it through the udpcast as you suggested above?
Direct connection would probably be faster.
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When I do the backup do I need to prevent other activity on the server?
Depends what you're backing up, and what activity you're preventing.
You need to learn more about your system. I don't even know your distro at this point so I can't begin to help you find out what's even running on it at this point.
A good start would be all the output of
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