From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 18:35:53 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 64C8516A408 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 18:35:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 554CA13C442 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 18:35:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k27so938184nfc for ; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:35:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Lgg2gSYepHprFd4Grd/E+PRhrwr2Ineu17eeE6IYgg6F2Ras7V7tDxFrzUxb6rvuLOkFPMSBBEtk6GTlex3VZIxFAq1qCg6a1a8zZZkYBA/hz4gFB2tBeHQcF++y9zSuTQuYCJcrQIpB68jvoEumo8twjr6kLrRhSaIr8GcDsaA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DP20ERfSew2kRJICaPIJPsaujU/RJaxRwF5gc7yLo06VJFm4tzJqeoonm9hbuw9tdr8XyrZE2R6iEGI/d9MP0lME4KAqq5WiAsRhQrHlv4VEkL+ptWNL4vgTA2Bz5faWmeBx9RrxbpQAxNCE4HKh7Q6g1N+FFyPqEZISeAQ2FNM= Received: by 10.82.136.4 with SMTP id j4mr778158bud.1172774150100; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:35:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.175.1 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:35:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:35:49 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070301230603.93bacce8.nick@nickwithers.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45E6BCFF.3010809@ephgroup.com> <20070301230603.93bacce8.nick@nickwithers.com> Cc: dave@ephgroup.com, Nick Withers 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 18:35:53 -0000 On 01/03/07, Nick Withers wrote: > 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... > 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. -- --