On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 11:37, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server running Debian with a tape drive and I want to back up > some Windows PCs to it (via LAN). I could use smbmount and regular Linux > backup tools (tar or whatever), but the Windows PCs aren't always on. > > So I'd prefer that backups are initiated on the remote PCs, and that > even the file set to backup was controlled on the remote PCs. All the > Linux server is doing then is streaming the data to tape. > > Can anyone recommend some software to achieve this?
I think the tool you want is probably smbtar. It is part of the smbclient package. The description is: smbtar - shell script for backing up SMB/CIFS shares directly to UNIX tape drives You could use putty on the windows machines to initiate and monitor the backup via ssh. Seems like the simplest solution to me... -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
