I work in an off-site lab and am the sub-net admin here. When I was
running WinXP, I had set up my company's sharepoint server as a network
place so it would autmatically log in. I then used scripts to gather all
the databases, compact them and upload them to the sharepoint where our
IT dept has a script to do tape backups every night. The timing was
perfect. We closed up at 4pm, the compactor script ran at 4:30pm and
when it was done it deleted a lock file that triggered the IT's tape
script. The process takes hours which is why it runs on scripts after work.

One day, I was talking with the IT supervisor while she was imaging a
hard drive and jokingly asked if I could put Linux on my company PC. She
said, sure and when she saw my look of disbelief, she reiterated her
approval and said, "if you can get it working."

Well, I got it working and I've re-written my scripts to do the nightly
backup.

I have created a bash script to do the same thing except the automatic
uploading because I can't figure out how to "put" a file up on a
sharepoint server. Now, the compactor runs at 4:30 like before (and even
runs faster with a tighter compression), but I can't upload till the
next morning which means the tape backup is a day behind. This is not
good because the db's are mission critical. In addition, the lab's
network traffic is busy during the day, so this upload is eating up
bandwidth needed for work.

I need to upload a large (1GB+) archive via a script with automatic
login to a sharepoint server over the internet. The address of the
server is in the format of: https://sp.mycompany.com/backups/TIF_lab/.
Being able to mount it would be perfect because I could then delete the
lock file to trigger the tape script.

Is there a package or method that would allow this?

Russ King