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Date:      Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:34:01 -0600
From:      Sean O'Neill <sean@seanoneill.info>
To:        Ben Kadish <Ben.Kadish@happcontrols.com>, darryl@osborne-ind.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Backup to cd burner on a win2k machine
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020214162413.00ab1ec0@postoffice.swbell.net>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020214120155.01c32108@mail.happcontrols.com>
References:  <001c01c1b582$783045d0$0701a8c0@darryl>

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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
>>
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