Help backing up to networked drive

I would like to backup my server to a firewire drive connected to a Macintosh Mini. Both machines are on my local network and, of course, behind a secure firewall. Right now I'm using this script to take backups: #!/bin/sh /sbin/dump -0uanL -f - / | gzip -2 | ssh -c blowfish [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Help backing up to networked drive

Mike Loiterman wrote: [ ... ] This is working fine, but I have to run the script mannually and enter the password. So my question are these: 1. Is there any other way of doing this so that I would not have to deal with the password issue from ssh? This is all taking place behind a secure fi

RE: Help backing up to networked drive

Mike Loiterman wrote: > I would like to backup my server to a firewire drive > connected to a Macintosh Mini. Both machines are on my local > network and, of course, behind a secure firewall. > > Right now I'm using this script to take backups: > > #!/bin/sh > > /sbin

RE: Help backing up to networked drive

> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Mike Loiterman > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:17 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Help backing up to networked drive > > > Mike Loiterman <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would li

RE: Help backing up to networked drive

For those that are interested this is how got things to work: On the Mac Mini I edited /etc/smb.conf and put in this: [backup] path = /Volumes/Server-Backup writeable = yes Then I restarted Windows File Sharing by going to System Preferences->Sharing and then turning off Windows Fil