Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:35:49 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: dave@ephgroup.com, Nick Withers <nick@nickwithers.com> Subject: Re: Backup procedure question / theory Message-ID: <d7195cff0703011035v60d9638du5ea93f0e9526aeb3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070301230603.93bacce8.nick@nickwithers.com> References: <45E6BCFF.3010809@ephgroup.com> <20070301230603.93bacce8.nick@nickwithers.com>
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On 01/03/07, Nick Withers <nick@nickwithers.com> wrote: > On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:46:07 +0000 > Dave Carrera <dave@ephgroup.com> 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... > Off the top of my head, having a home directory for the backups on the freebsd box and scripting in scp on the windows machine (probably have to install putty since appearantly ssh isn't a standard enough protocol for MS to Embrace and Extend it yet) obviates samba. If you already have samba installed, use that. If you have a reliable and useable nfs client for windows, that would work too. -- --
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