Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:37:33 -0600 From: Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: 520023893678-0001@t-online.de Subject: Re: back up Win2k workstations? Message-ID: <20030123103733.7b533ad7.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> In-Reply-To: <20030123053544.A22659@small.pukruppa.de> References: <20030123053544.A22659@small.pukruppa.de>
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 05:41:07 +0000 (GMT) 520023893678-0001@t-online.de (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? > Setup a Samba server on the FreeBSD box, then use the native windows backup tools to backup to the Samba share. Archive backups on the FreeBSD/Samba machine to tape/CDRW etc... with tar. If file compression is enabled in the windows backup utility then avoid using compression in your tar command as you will waste a lot of CPU power for very little compression. Regards, Stephen Hilton nospam@hiltonbsd.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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