Re: Linux Client

Using linux, it's easy. I use OpenBSD, which has no support for smbfs, so I must use Sharitylight. With linux, just make sure you have smbfs support in the kernel, and mount an NT share with smbmount. Then, you can run something like this: cd / tar cvfz /mnt/network-backup-server/nightly-backu

Re: Silly Newbie Questions

At 01:38 PM 8/9/2000, you wrote: >At 12:42 PM -0700 8/9/00, Doug Clements wrote: >>What don't you like about my way of creating a tar file on a mounted NT >>share? It seems to work rather well, and makes for an easy recovery. > >I recognize that it'll work great,

Re: Silly Newbie Questions

that ownership/permissions might not survive (which would, >indeed, suck). > >I'm not a big fan of the method you're describing, but if the >permissions/ownership problem exists, its the only currently existing way >of dealing with it. > >(Of course, if anyone f

Re: Silly Newbie Questions

There's no native linux Retrospect client, but I use Retrospect to backup tar archives of my linux machines. I smbmount a share on the NT server running Retrospect, and backup stuff to there using tar, which gets backed up via script by Retrospect. To restore, you have to recover the tar file

Backing up SQL server with Retrospect

Greetings, Just wondering if anyone was already backup up a Microsoft SQL server with Retrospect, and how well it works. Thanks.. --Doug -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives:

Backing up always-running IIS and SQL servers

on I downloaded. Even if these problems can't be worked around, we'll probably purchase Retrospect for the rest of the servers. Thanks for your time and suggestions.. --Doug Clements -- -- To subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED