From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 13: 9:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E731437B42C for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:09:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds124-115.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.115.124] with ESMTP id WAA00349 (8.8.5/1.13); Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:08:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA00701; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:08:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from janko@compuserve.com) X-Authentication-Warning: parmenides.utp.net: janko owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:08:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.net To: Gabriel Ramsey Trimbach Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Backup options In-Reply-To: <001401c01370$2a1fdcd0$461b020a@GABRIELB23MI> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Gabriel Ramsey Trimbach wrote: > Hey, > I know this is a bad way to start off but I am an NT administrator who is > looking for a way to back up a FreeBSD box on my network. I have no > experience working with FreeBSD and I'm having some trouble locating any > support concerning the backing up of files off of a FreeBSD machine. Any > suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help with this. > One way would be to run Samba on the FreeBSD machine. Samba emulates the network sharing services of Windows NT. Your NT server will see the FreeBSD box then as another NT server/workstation. You configure Samba to "share/export" the FreeBSD directories you want to backup. On the NT or WIN95/98 box, or wherever you have your tape backup, you map these directories to drive letter(s) and backup through the network. You could have a look at www.samba.org for more information. There are a lot of books about Samba. Being an NT administrator, you should check out the "Samba black book" from Dominic Baines, published by Coriolis. It has been written to help administrators with a NT background to understand Samba. Samba is available as a binary package on the FreeBSD CDROMS. Installation is simple. Configuration can be done over the network with an Internet browser. If you think Samba could be viable solution, you can always email me privately (in order to reduce the traffic on this busy list) Janko van Roosmalen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message