I'm assuming you want to give your users the ability to backup and restore
files at their will.
If you're looking to share the tape drive so you can use Windows' native
backup utility to write directly to the tape, sorry -- can't be done with
Samba. This is because a tape drive is not seen by the
Also check out Sync2Nas ( http://sync2nas.sourceforge.net/ ) and rsync (
http://rsync.samba.org/ ).
--Jon
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Jonathan Johnson wrote:
A better way is to use a client/server backup solution which has a backup
server running on the Linux box, and backup clients running on the
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:46:52AM -0700, Jonathan Johnson wrote:
If you're looking to share the tape drive so you can use Windows' native
backup utility to write directly to the tape, sorry -- can't be done with
Samba. This is because a tape drive is not seen by the system as a disk
drive;
