[plug] Remote backup of SMB mounted NTFS drive

[Anne Busby]

try smbtar - work uses it to back up a N$ server to a
tape driver in a unix box.

man smbtar said "smbtar is a very small shell script
on  top  of  smbclient which dumps SMB shares directly
to tape."      


--- "Earnshaw, Mike" <earnshawm at wa.switch.aust.com>
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
> 
>
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