[Dump-users] FYI: rmt on Windows

[Kenneth P. <sh...@se...>]

In a discussion about backing up to a Windows box over SMB:

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Date: Sunday, June 20, 2004 2:29 PM -0500
From: John Thompson <jo...@os...>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fed...@re...>
Subject: Re: backup

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:01:12 -0700
Kenneth Porter <sh...@se...> wrote:

> --On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 1:18 PM -0700 Ow Mun Heng
> <Ow....@wd...> wrote:
>
> > I can only think that you want Linux to Windows because your backup
> > server/software is windows based?
>
> That's what I do, because the tape drive is on the Windows box and
> AFAIK no one has ported rmt to Windows.

"Star"
(http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/privat
e/star.html) includes an rmt implementation and builds fine in cygwin.

> So I run dump to a
> Samba-mounted Windows share every night with cron. Those interested in
> this solution should jump on the dump mailing list.

Dump/restore in interactive mode can be very handy.



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-John (jo...@os...)


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