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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:53:27 -0600
From:      Doug Poland <djp@polands.org>
To:        "P. U. Kruppa" <520023893678-0001@t-online.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: back up Win2k workstations?
Message-ID:  <20030123045327.GA41623@polands.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030123053544.A22659@small.pukruppa.de>
References:  <20030123053544.A22659@small.pukruppa.de>

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On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:41:07AM +0000, P. U. Kruppa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for a concept to back up some Win2k workstations on
> a FreeBSD machine. Can this be done and how?
> 
Make a "share" for the disk(s) you want to backup, then use mount_smbfs
to get at the data.

You may not be successful backing up files in use, not sure, but speculating.
This would prevent successful backup of registry and security/user databases.
I'm almost certain you couldn't restore onto a MS filesystem on top of files
in use, so that would make restoring problematic.

A safe concept would be backup data files (as opposed to system files) not in 
use with tar.

HTH,

-- 
Regards,
Doug

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