getting ready to do some network upgrading for a client. going to be putting in a linux box using the SME server for file / print sharing and DHCP.

they have a database and it has it's own custom server software. they backup the DB every night, and that will continue, but I want to use a smb share on the linux box as a quick and dirty emergency restore. I want to backup the db files every 30 minutes or so to the SMB share so that if the server goes down, they can get back much quicker and loose a lot less data. .. . . . ie simply plug in the spare server and follow the easy instructions to copy the db files back off the linux box and onto the server, fire up the application and all is well.

of course simple scripting comes to mind, but I don't know about file access violations with that.

I'm also thinking about installing 2k server on the machine and using DFS . . though this is getting a bit complicated (and expensive . . . which is why SME is doing the file / print sharing . . it's free) if there is a simple backup program that will do this. anyone have any good suggestions?