From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 20:53:41 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A6637B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:53:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from galilee.polands.org (new-24-208-57-240.new.rr.com [24.208.57.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE64043E4A for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:53:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from sheba.polands.org (sheba.polands.org [172.16.1.33]) by galilee.polands.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0N4rSIl091109; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:53:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from djp@galilee.polands.org) Received: from sheba.polands.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sheba.polands.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0N4rSa3041645; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:53:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from djp@sheba.polands.org) Received: (from djp@localhost) by sheba.polands.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0N4rRtD041644; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:53:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from djp) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:53:27 -0600 From: Doug Poland 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> References: <20030123053544.A22659@small.pukruppa.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030123053544.A22659@small.pukruppa.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message