Re: Backing up across the network...
Richard Conroy (rc1@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Wed, 15 Jan 1997 23:44:55 +0000 (GMT)
> The problem is this: How to backup Linux boxes on a network, with
> the only avaible tape drive being on an NT box.
I think perhaps the easiest solution is to use a protocol like Samba on
the linux boxes and enable them export their contents as a mount for the
NT box. Samba is freely available and compiles easily on linux with a
great
array of documentation showing how to set up a secure system. This would
then allow you to mount the linux boxes as remote hard discs and back then
up on the NT machine as you would the NT hard disc. PC-NFS also offers the
same possibility, if you want
to pay for it. I use my NT box to periodically pull things from my linux
server via a cron job and backup files onto the linux machine as a manual
job.
Regards,
Richard
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