From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 14 14:34:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chivas.oneill.dhs.org (chivas.oneill.dhs.org [65.65.85.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA8C37B402 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:34:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from v812r.seanoneill.info (dhcp1.NONROUTABLE [192.168.2.1]) by chivas.oneill.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13BCF760D; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:34:10 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020214162413.00ab1ec0@postoffice.swbell.net> X-Sender: swoneill@postoffice.swbell.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:34:01 -0600 To: Ben Kadish , darryl@osborne-ind.com From: Sean O'Neill Subject: Re: Backup to cd burner on a win2k machine Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020214120155.01c32108@mail.happcontrols.com> References: <001c01c1b582$783045d0$0701a8c0@darryl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Another approach would be to use rsync. I use rsync for the same purpose(e.g. backups) but in the opposite direction. I backup my Win2K laptop (certain areas) to my FreeBSD machine using rsync over ssh. At 12:13 PM 2/14/2002 -0600, Ben Kadish wrote: >There are many ways you could do this, assuming you have a routine on the >Win2K box to execute the backup to CD periodically. It then becomes a >question of getting the files on to the 2K box. > >I currently do this by using scp on the Windows side, which runs as a >scheduled job, and copies files from the FBSD box. I'm not sure about >availability on the native Windows side, but I currently use the Cygwin >port of the ssh package, which includes scp. > >Hope that helps, > >Ben Kadish Ben@happcontrols.com >Network Analyst >Happ Controls, Inc. > > > >At 12:07 PM 2/14/2002 -0600, you wrote: >>Greetings, >>I have a box running FreeBSD 4.3 on my network. I have >>setup a few things on it and want to do a complete >>backup. The FreeBSD box doesn't have any realistic >>backup devices (CDBurner, tapedrive, zip,etc). My Win2K Pro >>box has a CD Burner on it. >> >>Is there a way I can backup the FreeBSD box to the burner >>on my Win2k Pro machine? >> >>thanks for any input, pointers, rtfms, etc. >> >>-Darryl >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message - ........................................................ ......... ..- -. .. -..- .-. ..- .-.. . ... ............ .-- .. -. -... .-.. --- .-- ... -.. .-. --- --- .-.. ... Sean O'Neill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message