Subject: Re: Backup
From: Ryan McBeth (ryan@mobiusnm.com)
Date: Tue May 30 2000 - 07:09:36 EDT
>> linux box serving all. How can I backup the mac
>> shares (homes etc) from the PC's?
It's funny to see this, because I've spent a good part of my
weekend writing an addendum to the SAMBA HOWTO just for this case. I'm
hoping to submit it to the Samba group some time this week. If you want
it, I'll e-mail it to you.
But the main point is that you can write a batch file that uses
xcopy to back up all of the shares that you need backed up. For example,
if you have /opt/customer/accounts mapped as drive G: you could say:
xcopy /C /E G: *.* C:\backups\customer\accounts
Now, if you use the scheduler that's built into Windows 98, you can
put all of the xcopy commands into a batch file that will back up as many
shares as you want.
If you are using NT, and you want this to run when you've gone home
for the night and logged out, you need to have the batch file connect up to
the linux box before it begins the transfer. So you would put this command
before the xcopy command:
net use G: \\myLinuxBox\accounts /user:backup mypassword
If you need help, don't hesitate to let me know. I already have
someting like this set up at my office and it works quite well.
Ryan
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