The problem with XP is that it will not share the users "My Documents"
directory or below without absolutely forcing it to do so. Unless the user
wants to ignore the security risk and share his "My Documents", then the
files he wants to backup should be put somewhere else. "Shared Documents" or
where ever.
rsync is still your answer. From the linux box write a 1 line script or just
add a crontab entry that basically is
rsync -(your options) \\windowsXP\Shared/ Files\directory
\\linuxbox\whereever
don't simply use rsync -e, because there is no 1 for 1 mapping of file
attributes from windows to unix. However, rsync is smart enough to do an
incrimental.
you can improve upon you script by testing to see that the windows box is
online before invoking rsync. It doesn't really hurt if it isn't, you just
get bigger log files.........
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul W. Abrahams"
On Thursday 04 November 2004 8:07 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The catch is that windows may refuse access to files that are in use at the moment. Better do sometime a mirror image, using ghost or
equivalent.
But there are complete backup solutions around - amanda comes to my
mind.
I still like the solution where the backup is initiated from the Linux server (usually via cron job) and the Windows user need not do anything. No extra software (other than Samba) needed.
Paul
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