Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[Jerry Westrick <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 02 November 2004 14:34, jalal wrote:
> On Tue 2 November 2004 12:38, David SMITH wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:11:31AM +0100, jalal wrote:
> > > I have a client who is using Windows XP and wants to backup his files
> > > (preferably automatically) to my Linux server.
> > >
> > > Normally in Linux I would suggest rsync, or tar/gzip/ftp or similar
> > > solutions
> > >
> > > But what would work under Windows? Does Windows have a shell and shell
> > > tools? I suspect not. And this is not a computer guru anyway.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any experience and/or solutions in this area?
> >
> > Make the Windows machine export its file system, mount it on the Linux
> > machine using Samba, and use crond/tar/gzip/etc?
>
> I've just persuaded these guys to tighten up their security by closing down
> things that they don't need, especially shares and such, so that wouldn't
> go down too well...
>
> "All you files are now backed up in Russia..." <bg>
>
> Nah, I need to find something that will work over the internet without
> glaring security holes, so I think I need to find a windows version of
> rsync/ssh. Or maybe just winzip and upload via ftp.
>

winscp3 can do scp/sftp command, but I don't know about batching that...
WebDrive (40$ at http://www.webdrive.com) will allow you to "Add a network 
drive" to a linux SFTP(SSH) server, and then you can do what ever you 
want/need...


Jerry
> Cygwin is, unfortunately, a little too complicated and rather overkill.
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