From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 13 10:33:33 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 10:33:30 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wlcg.com (mail.wlcg.com [207.226.17.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A99D737B400 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:33:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (rsimmons@localhost) by mail.wlcg.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBDIXSG22652; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:33:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rsimmons@wlcg.com) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:33:28 -0500 (EST) From: Rob Simmons To: Ippolito William-WLWI01 Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Cross platform back up software In-Reply-To: <6124D6EB081DD311B9210008C7918595010045A1@il93exm01.css.mot.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would put the DLT tape drive on the FreeBSD box, and install the latest version of samba. There is a script called smbtar included with samba that will allow you to dump the windows box directly to the tape. All you have to do is set the tape device to /dev/nsa0 or whatever you use for your tape if it were on the FB box. Robert Simmons Systems Administrator http://www.wlcg.com/ On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Ippolito William-WLWI01 wrote: > Is there any back up software the will run and Win2k and FreeBSD? I want to > move a Win2k server over to FreeBSD, but have no where to store the data > during the transition. The server is equipped with a DLT drive so I can > move the data to tape, but how do I move it back? If there is an easier or > alternative way of doing this please let me know. > > Thanks!!! > > Bill Ippolito > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message