From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 12:06:32 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84AFF16A403 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:06:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nick@nickwithers.com) Received: from mail.nickwithers.com (mail.manrags.com [203.219.206.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E6A113C4A8 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:06:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nick@nickwithers.com) Received: from localhost (presario.shmon.net [10.0.0.245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.nickwithers.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DED2B3A31D; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 23:06:16 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 23:06:03 +1100 From: Nick Withers To: dave@ephgroup.com Message-Id: <20070301230603.93bacce8.nick@nickwithers.com> In-Reply-To: <45E6BCFF.3010809@ephgroup.com> References: <45E6BCFF.3010809@ephgroup.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-nickwithers-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-nickwithers-MailScanner-From: nick@nickwithers.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup procedure question / theory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:06:32 -0000 On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:46:07 +0000 Dave Carrera wrote: > HI All, > > I need to automatically once a day backup some files on my Win 2003 > serve to my remote FreeBSD box running v6. > > What i need specifically is to compress the win files as small as > they can be then either set my FreeBSD box to go a get the file or > tell win to send it to my FreeBSD box. > > The stumbling block here is me, i have absolutely no idea what i > need to do on each box to achieve this, having never done it before. Not necessarily what you're after (may be a little excessive for your tastes), but I'd recommend Bacula (www.bacula.org). Failing that, perhaps a script to zip the files on the Win box then copy it to a Samba share on the FreeBSD box? Or mount a Windows share containing the files to be backed up on the FreeBSD box and bzip2 / gzip them to a file on the FreeBSD machine. A little off-topic here, perhaps... > So i ask if any kind persons on the list can advise or even help me > with this. > > Many kind regards > > Dave -- Nick Withers email: nick@nickwithers.com Web: http://www.nickwithers.com Mobile: +61 414 397 446