On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 10:41, David Vaughan wrote:
> I see a lot written about backing up windows files to a linux box, but what
> I want to do is backup linux files to a windows 2000/NT box. I have veritas
> backup exec for our windows servers, but for some reason the unix agent does
> not work with Fedora Core 2 (or I can't get it to work). So what I'd like to
> do is backup the linux server onto a directory on the windows server, and
> then use veritas as I normally do to grab those backups.
> 
> So would backuppc work this way? 

No, backuppc needs to make hard links on the underlying filesystem so I
don't think it could work without code changes.  You could smbmount
a directory from the windows box and dump tar images there but various
versions of things will have trouble if they are larger than 2 gigs.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]




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