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In article <d3ed679f.0306261650.3b271c35@posting.google.com >, Brad S wrote:

> Does anyone or know of scripts/methods for backing up directories on a
> linux machine to a windows machine? Also Is there anyway to have a
> file change its status to read only after it hasn't been modified for
> x amount of days?

Mount the Win filesystem with samba and use tar/cpio/afio/whatever from
linux to write the backup to the network drive. You want to avoid using a
Windows backup utility to back up linux filesystems because Windows
doesn't understand linux filesystem attributes like ownerships,
permissions, links, etc. Anything restored from such a backup would have
seriously limited utility.

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-John (John.Thompson@new.rr.com)

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 05:00:49 GMT, John Thompson <john@starfleet.os2.us> wrote:
> In article <d3ed679f.0306261650.3b271c35@posting.google.com >, Brad S wrote:
>
>> Does anyone or know of scripts/methods for backing up directories on a
>> linux machine to a windows machine? Also Is there anyway to have a
>> file change its status to read only after it hasn't been modified for
>> x amount of days?
>
> Mount the Win filesystem with samba and use tar/cpio/afio/whatever from
> linux to write the backup to the network drive. You want to avoid using a
> Windows backup utility to back up linux filesystems because Windows
> doesn't understand linux filesystem attributes like ownerships,
> permissions, links, etc. Anything restored from such a backup would have
> seriously limited utility.
>

Forgive if this is a bit off topic or perhaps requires a few additional
steps; but one could use cygwin on the windows box and use something
like amanda or rsync or perhaps another tool to do backups like this. I
believe that amanda exists now on cygwin and one could setup amanda to
do disk backups (tapeless) for various Linux clients. I have not used
amanda in cygwin so I don't know how it operates or what it does, but
cygwin may be an interesting way to go. It also has the advantage of
giving you a set of tools which I found very useful on my W2kpro box.

There are perhaps a few other tools as well like rsync that would do
this. I kinda look at rsync like a swiss army knife and the blade seems
to remain sharp for whatever task regarding backups or remote synching I
ask of it. Another interesting one is unison which has some very nice
functionality. Rsync would require the cygwin environment, but unison
has both Unix and Win32 clients. I don't know specifically how it
handles ownership and permissions if backups or file/directory
operations are conducted on directories on a Linux system.



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