From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 6 11:30:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA17597 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 11:30:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from houseofduck.ml.org (geo-160.remote.dti.net [206.252.145.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA17588 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 11:30:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shaggy@houseofduck.ml.org) Received: from houseofduck.ml.org (localhost.ml.org [127.0.0.1]) by houseofduck.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA07702; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 14:31:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3437DD02.F716AFF7@houseofduck.ml.org> Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 14:31:30 -0400 From: Joshua Fielden Reply-To: jfielden@geocities.com Organization: GeoCities X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02b7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-970903-RELENG i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Ramirez CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backing up Win95 SAMBA clients via FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Marc Ramirez wrote: > > Hello, all! > > I have a FreeBSD server with DAT which serves, via SAMBA some Win95 PCs > (currently two, but eventually twelve or so as soon as the full funding > comes through). Does anyone have any experience/recommendations about > different backup strategies? > > Marc. > > -- > na bhavet.h jArajeNa chUrNita We have the same setup here, and I wrote batch scripts for all the users. Essentially it is: xcopy32 c:\mydocu~1\*.* I changed the properties to close on exit, and all users are expected to just double-click the icon before they go home at night, or I take no responsibility for their data. After one user lost 200 address book entries and some bookmarks, they started to take me seriously. :-) It's kind of a primative way to do it, but it works pretty flawlessly, and I've managed to restore every machine that needed restoring. The only drawback is that it eats drive space for a period of time, but in my case that doesn't happen to be an issue. -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual life-threatening emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed. -- Joshua Fielden, Systems Administrator, GeoCities http://www.geocities.com jfielden@geocities.com I do not speak for my company, all opinions enclosed in this e-mail are purely my own.