Best/Simple Way Backup to Remote Server

[dvaughan]

Hi. Looking for a way to performa FULL backup of my Fedora Core 2 machine to the hard disk of a remote Windows Server (2000 or NT). I have Veritas and installed the remote unix agent but cannot get it to work with Fedora 2 so I'm looking for another way. If I can get the FULL backup on the Windows Server than I can use Veritas to back it up on tape.

Thanks in advance.
dave

[elliss]

You can use the supplied Samba client software to login and copy files to a Windows share - see smbmount and smbtar man pages, so this is easy to script.

Bear in mind that the majority of files on your system are provided by packages, and so you already have "backups" for these. You could use tar or smbtar to backup the entire system, but only /etc, /home, /root and /var should contain user or admin created files.

[dvaughan]

Thank you elliss. I'm currently using samba anyway, so this seems like a good solution. I will research those man pages, thanks again.