Well, I have a Linux box in our department where all are M$ boxes. I installed samba (2.0.7) and used cron to mount the shared M$ folders and tar'ed the mounted filesystems into backup directories on the Linux box. This was done during lunch when I was quite certain the M$ machines were not in use. Again, after the backup process was completed, I used cron to umount the mounted filesystems and executed a killall -9 smbmount to ensure that all smbmount's have been 'killed' (I discovered that if the smbmount process was still running when the next backup routine executed, I get an error and the backup process just doesn't complete). Hoped that helped and I suppose you can do the same for the Mac box.
A word of advise though, the 'shared' folders on the M$ boxes had to be shared 'read-only' to 'The World', as for some reason, sharing by username did not allow the Linux box to 'see' the contents in the mounted shared folders. Patrick Cheong Where do you want to go today? As far away from Redmond Only dead fish go with the flow! > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Kopishke [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 1:25 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Back up ideas??? > > Hi, I am trying to set up a flexable backup system. This requires that > the software is multi-platform (Win 98/NT/2000 Linux and maybe MacOS), > and it (the server) must be easy to access remotely. What I have now is a > decent Machine Running Linux with a lot of disk space. What I would like > to do is have every one make a backup of the work they are doing daily, > then I can burn a cd weekly for an archive. Is there any thing out there > right now that can do this type of job. > > Thanks, > > -Matt- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
