VanLUG Email Archive
Mike Bell (athasian@altavista.net)
Wed, 19 May 1999 22:03:02 -0700
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 09:02:34PM -0700, falstaff@lennon.postino.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> More than once people have told me this. How exactly can I backup
> the NT shares to the tape drive on the Linux box using Samba?
> Are you suggesting that I copy the data from the NT box to the
> Linux box and then run a backup to tape? Besides being kludgy, I
> don't have that much spare disk space. I have about 2Gig in the NT
> box and about the same on the Linux box. Both are running about
> 80% full.
I would use the smbmount program. Lets you mount a smb share in the tree,
just like a regular mount excepting that you can't put it in the fstab,
since it uses smbmount rather than mount. I have no idea whether your
existing kernel supports it, it's the kind of thing I'd put in a kernel, but
who knows, you may have to recompile and include it in the networked file
system section (just file system section if you are running 2.0.x)
-- Mike Bell
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