Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 14:31:30 -0400 From: Joshua Fielden <shaggy@houseofduck.ml.org> To: Marc Ramirez <mrami@cep.yale.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backing up Win95 SAMBA clients via FreeBSD Message-ID: <3437DD02.F716AFF7@houseofduck.ml.org> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971006132639.10186C-100000@www.cep.yale.edu>
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Marc Ramirez wrote: > > Hello, all! > > I have a FreeBSD server with DAT which serves, via SAMBA some Win95 PCs > (currently two, but eventually twelve or so as soon as the full funding > comes through). Does anyone have any experience/recommendations about > different backup strategies? > > Marc. > > -- > na bhavet.h jArajeNa chUrNita We have the same setup here, and I wrote batch scripts for all the users. Essentially it is: xcopy32 c:\mydocu~1\*.* <mapped SAMBA drive> <options> <more of same> I changed the properties to close on exit, and all users are expected to just double-click the icon before they go home at night, or I take no responsibility for their data. After one user lost 200 address book entries and some bookmarks, they started to take me seriously. :-) It's kind of a primative way to do it, but it works pretty flawlessly, and I've managed to restore every machine that needed restoring. The only drawback is that it eats drive space for a period of time, but in my case that doesn't happen to be an issue. -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual life-threatening emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed. -- Joshua Fielden, Systems Administrator, GeoCities http://www.geocities.com jfielden@geocities.com I do not speak for my company, all opinions enclosed in this e-mail are purely my own.
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