how to schedule backup sessions

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I need to do monthly backups of a Windows 2000 server to a remote mass
storage machine. Typically the backup is aroung 1-2 Gbytes and it takes
a whole day to do this. The remote machine is Unix based and is not
available via Network Neighborhood. It would be nice if somehow I could
map the remote machine as a drive on the W2K server and then use Cobian
Backup to take care of my problem, but I cannot figure out how to do
that.

Barring a clever soul who has a solution for this, I am forced to use
FTP. I have not found a FTP program that will do this easily. Ones I
have tried are WSFTP LE (my favorite) FTP Wanderer, Absolute FTP and a
few others.

Any suggestions please?
 
badgolferman said:
I need to do monthly backups of a Windows 2000 server to a remote mass
storage machine. Typically the backup is aroung 1-2 Gbytes and it takes
a whole day to do this. The remote machine is Unix based and is not
available via Network Neighborhood. It would be nice if somehow I could
map the remote machine as a drive on the W2K server and then use Cobian
Backup to take care of my problem, but I cannot figure out how to do
that.

Barring a clever soul who has a solution for this, I am forced to use
FTP. I have not found a FTP program that will do this easily. Ones I
have tried are WSFTP LE (my favorite) FTP Wanderer, Absolute FTP and a
few others.

Any suggestions please?
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Samba - www.samba.org. Allows you to connect to UNIX boxen as if they
are Windoze shares, so it _will_ be available via Network Neighbourhood.

Cheers,
Gary B-)
 
Gary said:
Samba - www.samba.org. Allows you to connect to UNIX boxen as if they
are Windoze shares, so it _will_ be available via Network
Neighbourhood.

Cheers,
Gary B-)
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The provided link and follow up links are kind of difficult to
understand. I am unable to find any sort of installation package or
explanations of how this program works. Have you actually used this
program?
 
badgolferman wrote:
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The provided link and follow up links are kind of difficult to
understand. I am unable to find any sort of installation package or
explanations of how this program works. Have you actually used this
program?
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Yes, I have been using Samba for years, both building it myself and
installing pre-built binaries. Get the admin on the UNIX box to install
it, and you will be able to see it from windows as
\\whatever_the_UNIX_machine_name_is.

Where I am currently employed, we have it running on Solaris 7, 8, 9,
HPUX 11, AIX 4.3 and 5.1, Tru64 4.0f and 5.1, and a whole heap of
various Linux boxen.

Some vague instructions follow...

From the next page after "select a mirror":
"The HTML version of Using Samba, 2ed is now available on Samba.org. The
new edition will also be included in the upcoming 3.0.0 RC2 release."
My link (I'm in Oz) is:
http://samba.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/samba/docs/using_samba/toc.html

If you click on a "download" link, and then look under "binaries" you
will see a list of boxen, among them AIX, Bull, Debian, IRIX, LSB,
Mandrake, OSF, RedHat, SuSE, hp, mvs, novell, sinix, solaris, vms. Now,
I want to install it on one of my Solaris boxes, so I click on solaris,
then sparc (because that's what I'm running it on) and I see a list of
files and the instructions for how to get the requisite file(s) and
install it/them.

If I wanted it for, say a Dynix/PTX machine, I would pull down the
sources and build it, from the other path.

Cheers,
Gary B-)
 
Get the admin on the UNIX box to
install it, and you will be able to see it from windows as
\\whatever_the_UNIX_machine_name_is.
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Well, this will never happen. I guess I will have to pursue other
means. Any FTP clients around that can schedule uploads?
 
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