From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 11:26:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C490916A4CE for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:26:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from dm3cn8.bell.ca (dm3cn8.bell.ca [206.47.0.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B58543D5C for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:26:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from christopher.hollow@cgi.com) Received: from 142.122.115.62dm3cn8.bell.ca with ESMTP (Tumbleweed MMS SMTP Relay (MMS v5.0)); Thu, 05 Feb 2004 13:52:59 -0500 X-Server-Uuid: D4A4E604-913A-4A1B-8C07-2866D92AD410 Received: from cgi.com ([142.122.30.40]) by bt5c69.on.bell.ca (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 BESI_Messaging_7 Apr 29 2002 13:22:02) with ESMTP id HSMKFR00.KEJ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:52:39 -0500 Message-ID: <402290F2.3050502@cgi.com> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 13:52:34 -0500 From: "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: darryl@osborne-ind.com References: <011201c3ec0f$ff813bf0$0701a8c0@darryl> In-Reply-To: <011201c3ec0f$ff813bf0$0701a8c0@darryl> X-WSS-ID: 6C3C4E81288634-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 19:26:56 -0000 Here's how I do it... - Open a writable Samba share on the FreeBSD box. - Map the drive from Windows and ensure the Win-user can write to it. - Schedule Robocopy (Res. Kit utility) to sync the Samba share from publications. Should do it. Robocoy script should be something like: robocopy.exe C:\publications J:\sambashare /mir >> C:\robocopy.log where C:\ is your local source directory that you are syncing from and J: is your mapped Samba share on the FreeBSD box. HTH, Christopher Hollow Darryl Hoar wrote: >Greetings, >I have a Freebsd 5.1-release box with samba installed, configured and >working. > >On my network I have an NT 4 server (can't change this right now). It has >a share on it called publications. > >I would like to synchronize (in one direction) the files from the >publication >share to the Freebsd box. So, when I synchronized, any changes on the >publications share are copied to the freebsd box, but NEVER the other way. > >Any ideas on this ? > >thanks, >Darryl > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > -- Christopher Hollow - Technical Consultant Infrastructure & Technology Support Toronto, ON