On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Peter Rundle wrote: > > > Alternatively, you > > could run something like Veritas or ArcServe on one of the WindoZe boxes, > > and backup the Linux stuff via samba. > > Whoa! Technically this should work but licence wise it probably won't > until you 'fess up with some more cash. The vendors of backup software > often licence on a per machine basis. A smart user might realise that > if they attached shares from all their machines to a central one, then > they would only need one license... The vendors are awake to this one.
You can always do dumps to tape and incur no backup software charges. :-) There are scenarios where this doesn't work well such as where you must backup networked machines. But there's always rsync. Using cygwin you can even install rsync on windows machines: http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/help/rsync/ Then you can have the winboxen rsync daily to the backup server and run dump daily to put it all on tape. -=-=-==-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Graeme Robinson - Graenet consulting www.graenet.com - internet solutions -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==---=-=--=-=-= -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug