backup

[John Thompson]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:01:12 -0700
Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:

> --On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:18 PM -0700 Ow Mun Heng 
> <Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com> wrote:
> 
> > I can only think that you want Linux to Windows because your backup
> > server/software is windows based?
> 
> That's what I do, because the tape drive is on the Windows box and
> AFAIK no one has ported rmt to Windows. 

"Star" (http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html) includes an rmt implementation and builds fine in cygwin.  

> So I run dump to a
> Samba-mounted Windows share every night with cron. Those interested in
> this solution should jump on the dump mailing list.

Dump/restore in interactive mode can be very handy.



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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)