[plug] Backups

[Matt Kemner]

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Nevile Pires wrote:

> Or is anyone using some Backup
> software on an NT machine, to back up a Linux machine??

An alternative way to do it would be to run a cron job a couple of hours
before the NT backup program runs, that uses tar to backup the entire
drive into one tar file, which you can then either write directly to a
drive on the NT machine with smbfs, or place in a directory accessable via
samba.

Try something like

"tar --exclude-from /root/notar.txt -clzf backup/`date +%Y%m%d`.tgz /"

where /root/notar.txt contains:

backup
dev
proc

and any other directories you don't want backed up.

 - Matt