From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 6 09:35:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA29776 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 09:35:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from conductor.synapse.net (conductor.synapse.net [199.84.54.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA29762 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 09:35:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from evanc@synapse.net) Received: (qmail 21587 invoked from network); 6 Nov 1997 17:34:56 -0000 Received: from cello.synapse.net (199.84.54.81) by conductor.synapse.net with SMTP; 6 Nov 1997 17:34:56 -0000 From: "Evan Champion" To: , Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Win 95 Network Backup Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:34:55 -0500 Message-ID: <01bceada$4b8af7e0$513654c7@cello.synapse.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Actually, because of a hardware shortage, I do that here, but archive to >tape, not CD. I run SAMBA on the BSD box, and then mount the "drives" on >NT. Once the drive is mounted, it is eligible for backup with backup >programs. The file copying is done using the SMB protocol, and windoze >doesn't know the difference. One caveat from my days at an un-named >company, where we were trying to develop a program that would reliably >be a CDR burner over the network: CDR's need a constant stream of data >at a steady rate. Data over/under-runs are very possible in this >scenario. IMHO, you stand a better chance of burning frisbees than >backups over the network. Amanda 2.4 (and possibly the later 2.3's) can back up over SMB. Evan