Backup archive to samba shared folder

[nestor-dejuan]

Hi everyone,

I have a WinCC OA 3.18 running on a RedHat server, and I want to backup archives of the database to a shared folder with a Windows machine over Samba.

RedHat already has connection to this folder and it is shown without problem on the file explorer, but when I want to choose that path on the Backup H1 tab of the database configuration it is not shown on the file browser window.

I understand that the option I chose (HD/MO/JAZ) is the correct one, because DAT is prepared for DAT tapes as I can see on the WinCC OA Documentation.

Anyone knows if what I want to do is possible? Thanks beforehand.

[dbindernagel]

I do not have experince with Linux but with Windows it is technically possible.

If you try to change the "Host for storage" you get a popup with the message:
"Using another host is only possible when storing to DAT! For storing the own computer will be used."

But you can open the folder selection dialog on the "Target path" option and enter a unc path like this:

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\\server\share

If the dialog under Linux does not allow to select an unc path you can maybe try to enter it directly in the archive datapoint. No guarantee that this will work, though.

Also verify that the user you are using has the rights to access the share.