[plug] Remote backup of SMB mounted NTFS drive

[Garth Atkinson]

What tar errors are you getting?

"Earnshaw, Mike" wrote:
> 
> Pluggers,
> 
> After a *very* near disaster with our M$ Exchange server yesterday I
> have had to change backup strategies for this "flagship" product. I
> would like to mount the NTFS drive via SMB and backup on our nightly run
> via linux box. I have a nifty util that does an online copy of the
> database to a spare drive, I have the smb connect mounted on my linux
> box, but I don't appear to get tar working.
> 
> A net search indicates plenty of remote tar to unix boxen but not in
> this config. Closest I have found is BRU but the features I want are
> only available in the commercial version. I am checking freshmeat now
> for others.
> 
> Any observations on what I should be looking for from pluggers?
> 
> Thanks